Having reliable access to nutritious food may affect brain health in a surprising way: through the bacteria living in the gut ...

For the first time, a person is using a University of Utah bionic arm at home that he can control through signals from his ...

How well a child solves reasoning problems may offer clues about dementia risk many decades later. A long-term Swedish study ...

The latest Apple Watch models have some new features: they can listen to the sounds around you all day, transcribe snippets ...

A patient arrives at a hospital with signs of a stroke, and a race against time begins. Doctors need to work out what type of ...

Getting older is measured in birthdays, but scientists increasingly recognize that the body does not always age at exactly ...

Most people know that early modern humans had children with Neanderthals. Some also inherited DNA from another extinct group called the Denisovans. Now, researchers have found evidence of two more ...

Many Americans entered late summer feeling that their money would buy less in the months ahead. In the University of Michigan’s August 2026 consumer survey, only 10% said they expected their buying ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius buried the Roman town of Herculaneum in hot ash. Inside a library, hundreds of papyrus scrolls were burned black but survived. They may hold works of ancient ...

Managing diabetes involves much more than reaching a good blood sugar number. People also have to think about meals, exercise, sleep, medication and the possibility that glucose may become too high or ...

That morning coffee may be doing far more inside your body than simply helping you wake up. Coffee contains hundreds of active chemicals, and many remain in the drink even when the caffeine has been ...

Anabolic steroids are drugs made to act like testosterone, a hormone that plays an important role in muscle growth. Some people use these drugs without medical supervision to build muscle or improve ...