Science News

The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company announced it would lower the price of its most prescribed insulins by 70 per cent and cap out-of-pocket costs for people at $35 per month

Byzantine earrings and an Islamic-style coin were found by a town key to Viking trade in Germany.

Half a million men in the United States undergo a vasectomy every year. But how does this procedure work?

Researchers have developed a compound that can target and break down a post-transitionally modified protein associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Study identifies three different bacteria involved in Lewy body dementia. The findings provide new biomarkers for diagnosing the disease, and potential new avenues for therapeutic development.

Using EEG technology, researchers were able to detect pathological brain activity associated with seizures up to thirty minutes before a seizure occurred in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. The ability to detect sei...

Imagine a sheet of material just one layer of atoms thick--less than a millionth of a millimeter. While this may sound fantastical, such a material exists: it is called graphene and it is made from carbon atoms in a hone...

Suffering from sleep-related disorders such as OSA or insomnia was associated with up to seven years worth of heightened risk for cardiovascular disease and reduced mortality, a new study reports.

Pregnant women with anxiety have higher levels of cytotoxic T cells and a difference in the activity of immune markers that circulate in the blood compared to pregnant women without anxiety.

A moai statue has been discovered on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, at the bottom of a lake that has been shrinking for several years

A sixth failed rainy season would deepen the long-term drought in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia that has contributed to a devastating food crisis

Four new studies confirm that NASA's DART mission, which crashed a rocket into the asteroid Dimorphos, changed the asteroid's trajectory and could potentially save Earth one day, given enough time to prepare.

Toothed whales produce a low-pitch 'vocal fry' using powerful air blasts from their blowholes, helping them locate food in deep water where the pressure collapses their lungs

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission slammed into a small space rock last year, and the effects were visible from Earth orbit.

A research team led by Prof. Gao Xiaoming from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a near-infrared dual-channel oxygen-corrected laser heterodyne radiometer (LHR) in ...

A study of adults aged 70 and older found that every extra 500 steps - just under half a kilometre - walked per day can reduce risk of heart disease and stroke by 14 per cent

Three years on, the Lego Ideas Tree House is still a stunning set.

A researcher in NDSU's Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology and the Department of Physics has uncovered what makes a prominent paint glow in the dark for hours. The findings are reported in a paper ...

In a randomised trial, students who listened to a single 50-minute talk on the health and climate impacts of meat ate 9 per cent fewer meat-based meals over the next three years

For more than half a decade, the Majorana Collaboration, a large consortium of researchers from different universities worldwide, have been trying to observe neutrinoless double-beta decay, one of the rarest forms of rad...

With so many satellites now in orbit, some are straying across Hubble's field of view as it is taking photographs of distant celestial objects

Cases of norovirus in England are at their highest level for more than 10 years and are still rising - here's what could be behind it