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A recent study investigated the impact of 6-MSITC, a compound found in wasabi, on cognitive functions in older adults. Over 12 weeks, participants took either a 6-MSITC supplement or a placebo.

In this interview, immunologist Ruslan Medzhitov explains how fundamental inflammation is, why it often goes wrong, and whether there's anything we can do about chronic inflammation.

Possible amino acids spewing from Enceladus' subsurface ocean can survive impact with a spacecraft, lab experiments show.

Inflammation can be both a superhero and a villain, depending on the context. Rather than eliminating it completely, new treatments are trying to redirect it.

People often experience fevers when they get sick. But what is going on in your body as your temperature spikes?

Astrophotographer Petr Horálek shot this image of the Milky Way dazzling above strange geological formations in the desert close to the ALMA radio telescope array in Chile.

We worked out how many trips each of the solar system's eight planets has taken around the sun over the past 4.6 billion years.