Some of the healthiest plant-based foods on the menu – including spinach, beetroot, rhubarb, almonds, and sweet potatoes – could be linked to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), based on a new study.

An exquisitely preserved feathered raptor just discovered in north-eastern China could probably fly. It's also somewhat disrupted the evolutionary path we thought birds took to get into the air.

Osteoarthritis, where the cartilage in a joint gradually erodes away and leads to the painful friction of bone-on-bone, is the leading cause of disability for older adults worldwide.

A new window into the quantum realm has just been opened by a single microscopic grain of glass levitating in a beam of light. In what may be the world's tiniest disco, physicists intertwined the ...

Every winter, Antarctica roughly doubles in size as sea ice locks into place over the ocean. Typically, Breid Bay in East Antarctica is entirely covered in a frozen crust from July through August. But ...

How do you teach the immune system to recognize a cancer cell? Researchers are taking clues from the tumor itself, selecting unusual protein fragments and putting them into a vaccine. The aim is to ...

One of the most widely used drugs in the world could help reduce dementia risk when taken daily – but only for some.

When the tokamak powers on, something magical happens in the confines of its reinforced belly. Plasma born of heavy hydrogen blooms into brilliant pink, roiling and writhing around the doughnut-shaped ...

Dinner by yourself can be a lonely affair. The lack of social connection could change the way that your body processes your meal. A new study published in Science Advances has now found evidence that ...

Some people taking Ozempic-like medications have described just such a change. Could these drugs help people with alcohol use ...

The human brain is a magnificently complex information-processing machine that is extremely off-limits to certain kinds of research.

Prions are one of nature's cruelest tricks. Proteins are chains of amino acids that need to fold in very specific ways – a process that does not always work as intended. Your body is pretty good at ...