Understanding the relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and the brain’s complex network of vessels and veins is a challenge for science.

Visceral fat is often dubbed the ‘hidden' fat because it lies in the body's midsection, where it can't be touched or seen.

The result surprised the research group: compared to pure barium titanate of a similar thickness, the current flow was up to 1,000x stronger

A new tool can quickly and reliably identify the presence of Ebola in blood samples and potentially could be developed into a rapid test.

Research suggests that many people may indeed reap mental health benefits from working with plants — even if they’ve never gardened before.

The robotic microswarm could be particularly valuable for those who lack the manual dexterity to clean their teeth effectively themselves.

Gun violence is now recognized as a pervasive and growing problem in a country with patchwork regulation and 25% more guns than people.

Researchers have developed an oral medication to treat diabetes while simultaneously reversing the inflammatory effects of the disease.

Scientists propose the idea of a multilayer deflective film to be deployed at the Lagrangian Point decreasing the incident sunlight by 1.8%.

30 percent of American adults get less than six hours of sleep per night, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

MIT researchers have produced smart textiles that snugly conform to the body so they can sense the wearer’s posture and motions.

Growing up, Jake Purnell had never dreamed of having a career as a nurse, until he attended an event to support a classmate with leukemia.

Brain scans of people taken while they performed various tasks accurately predicted whether they were politically conservative or liberal.

Researchers report that blood pressure and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) are controlled by bioelectronic treatment.

To assess whether the eNose results accurately mirrored human perception, the team recruited human smellers and devised a set of tests

The human genome is littered with “selfish genetic elements,” which do not seem to benefit their hosts, but instead seek only to propagate.

Direct air carbon capture and sequestration (DAC) are considered critical to achieving a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy by 2050.

Researchers found that the oral compound RG7834 stopped replication at a key step, making it impossible for the virus to infect liver cells.

Researchers have discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater deep in a gold- and uranium-producing mine in Moab Khotsong, South Africa.

Research groups around the world are therefore looking for substances that stimulate brown fat and thus increase fat burning.