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Headlines warn that our soil is becoming so degraded that we are heading for an agricultural Armageddon. Can that be right? James Wong investigates

In a new study of older adults living in a senior continuing care facility, researchers parse how distinctive factors, such as wisdom, loneliness, income and sleep quality, impact the physical and mental functioning of o...

Caregivers need only 'get it right' 50 percent of the time when responding to babies' need for attachment to have a positive impact on a baby, new research finds.

In a group of former professional athletes who experienced multiple concussions, a new study has found that approximately half the group had higher than normal levels of a protein called tau in their cerebrospinal fluid,...

Whether or not an NCAA Division I athlete is likely to report concussion symptoms depends on factors including their vested interests, their understanding of health implications, and their team culture and societal influ...

New research has shown that harnessing metabolism at a cellular level may help to relieve or heal a range of disorders.

Scientists have used an experimental therapy that relies on bacteria-infecting viruses collected, in part, through HHMI's SEA-PHAGES program to fight a Mycobacterium infection in a 15-year-old girl.

Obesity is increasing more rapidly in the world's rural areas than in cities, according to a new study of global trends in body-mass index (BMI).

As New Zealand considers a bill looking to legalize euthanasia, an ethicist considers it's time to shine the light on the ethical complications surrounding body donation and assisted dying.

A new study suggests that meals that include fresh avocado as a substitute for refined carbohydrates can significantly suppress hunger and increase meal satisfaction in overweight and obese adults.

Research confirms that grapefruit juice prolongs the QT interval. This finding has implications for patients taking medications that prolong the QT interval and may have implications for patients with congenital long QT ...

A new study set out to settle some of the discrepancies related to brain anatomy and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), employing a large dataset to obtain their findings.

Researchers have succeeded in creating a 'protein cage' -- a nanoscale structure that could be used to deliver drugs to specific places of the body -- that can be readily assembled and disassembled.

Researchers used single-cell sequencing to identify a protein expressed uniquely by insulin-producing beta cells created from stem cells in the laboratory. By targeting the protein and adding a physical enrichment method...

Researchers have come up with a novel way to classify proteins and their shapes, which lays the foundation of how we understand protein structures and functions.

Scientists followed a cohort of more than 100 people over several years, tracking the biology of what makes them them. Now, after collecting extensive data on the group's genetic and molecular makeup, the researchers are...

A large genetic trial in Finland will soon tell 3,400 volunteers their personal risk of developing heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and a type of blood clot

The country that first started turning coal into electricity has managed without it for a week. But don't be fooled by the good news

Knitting in four dimensions makes objects that can move, including a rabbit that cuddles, a jumper with moving arms, and a shape-changing lampshade

Weyl semimetals are a recently discovered class of materials in which charge carriers behave the way electrons and positrons do in particle accelerators. Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology an...

A few years back, DeepMind's Demis Hassabis famously prophesized that AI and neuroscience will positively feed into each other in a "virtuous circle." If realized, this would fundamentally expand our insight into intelli...

An analysis compares four methods of dealing with arsenic contamination in Bangladesh, and pinpoints strategies to deliver cleaner water to the greatest number of people at the lowest cost.