People at high risk of pancreatic cancer are often monitored with imaging and other tests that can be invasive, expensive, and limited in their ability to catch the disease early. An experimental ...

Cortisol strengthens emotional memories by reshaping how brain networks for emotion and memory work together. Stress does not strengthen every memory equally. New research suggests that cortisol, a ...

“Having weak leg muscles and being overweight or obese increases a person’s risk for knee osteoarthritis,” Cheng said. “Women, older adults, people with a prior knee injury and those with a family ...

The Lauca Caldera, a large volcanic depression in northern Chile, erupted 21.9 million years ago and buried an entire ...

CERN physicists have found that quantum entanglement can survive even among heavy, short-lived particles created in some of the most extreme collisions on Earth. Credit: CERN Particles left behind by ...

M. trumani lived across North America during the Pleistocene, from about 2.5 million to 16,000 years ago. Fossils show that it had a slender body, long front legs, and large nasal cavities, features ...

Rocks that fell from a cliff and split open in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic revealed a fern-shaped creature that ...

The proposed method is particularly suited to superconducting quantum computers, one of the leading platforms being developed for large-scale quantum computing. Chalmers is using this technology to ...

Fragrance chemicals released by common cleaners can react with ozone in indoor air within minutes, according to research led by Brandon Boor. The reaction occurred with both conventional products and ...

The results add to evidence that dark energy, the unknown component believed to drive that expansion, may evolve rather than ...

Scientists are testing an experimental nanoparticle vaccine designed to train the immune system to intercept opioids before they reach the brain. Credit: Shutterstock. Researchers ...

Scientists have long thought that tau, the protein that forms Alzheimer’s tangles, moves into the wrong parts of neurons as the disease develops. New research suggests the story starts much earlier ...