Giving a friend a ride, baking cookies for a sick family member, or even buying a stranger a cup of coffee knows acts of kindness add joy.

Researchers discovered that increasing the production of new neurons in mice with Alzheimer’s disease rescues the animals’ memory defects.

Solar panels often get a bad rap for spoiling the appearance of homes and businesses. Yet, this may be about to change.

Scientists use modern rocks, moon samples and meteorites to figure out when and how the Earth and moon formed and what they had looked like.

Drinking a small amount of whey protein before meals has been shown to help people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugars.

A teen genius at a U.S. middle school has built a working, tiny nuclear fusion reactor—and made it into Guinness World Records

Researchers are one step closer to making a multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test, that can detect over 50 types of cancer.

Nearly half of all vaccines go to waste, due to the logistical obstacles involved in transporting them to diverse regions of the world.

Researchers have discovered that they can control the stickiness of adhesive bandages using ultrasound waves and bubbles.

Cheap and quick to produce, these digitally manufactured plasma sensors could help scientists predict the weather or study climate change.

Flexible implanted electronics are a step closer toward clinical applications thanks to a recent breakthrough technology.

Scientists have made a major breakthrough in understanding how malaria parasites divide and transmit the disease.

The discovery of how to shift damaged brain cells from a diseased state into a healthy one presents a new path to treating Alzheimer's.

Advances in surgery have made ever better rotator cuff repairs possible. But failure rates with surgery can be high.

Microplastics, tiny particles of plastic that are now found worldwide in the air, water, and soil, are increasingly recognized.

The day is coming – some say has already arrived – when artificial intelligence starts to invent things that its human creators could not.

In the last 25 years, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around stars in our galaxy, but more than 99% of them orbit small stars

The new air-powered hand provides a lightweight, low-maintenance and easy-to-use body-powered prosthetic option where cost is a concern.

A common weed harbors important clues about how to create drought resistant crops in a world beset by climate change.

Robert Sansone’s research could pave the way for the sustainable manufacturing of electric vehicles that do not require rare-earth magnets.