What are the Best and Worst Ways to Prepare for an Exam?
Scientists have a lot of practical information on this topic
Microbleeds, diminished cerebral blood flow in cognitively normal older patients
Study suggests cortical cerebral microbleeds were associated with reduced brain blood flow in a group of cognitively normal older patients
Lynchpin molecule for the spread of cancer found
A single molecule called DNA-PKcs may drive metastatic processes that turn cancer from a slowly growing relatively benign disease to a killer
Funeral directors may be at heightened risk of progressive neurodegenerative disease
Link with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis may be formaldehyde in embalming fluid
What's the best way to fight memory loss?
We'd all like to about keep our brains as sharp as possible as we age. But what are the best ways to do this, asks Michael Mosley.
The plant that can kill and cure
Nightshades have a deadly reputation but these plants, steeped in myth and folklore, have been used for thousands of years for medicinal purposes.
Experts Urge Sparing Use of Nonaspirin Painkillers
The Food and Drug Administration will ask that labels of some popular painkillers reflect new evidence of their health risks
Burst of light speeds up healing by turbocharging our cells
It sounds too good to be true. Shining red light on skin or cells in a dish gives an instant energy boost that could help heal wounds, relieve pain and perhaps help male infertility and other medical conditions.
New classification system for brain tumors
Doctors at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen have developed a simple radiological method to predict the development of gliomas
Curiosity rover finds evidence of Mars' primitive continental crust
ChemCam instrument shows ancient rock much like Earth's
The Psychological Cost of Being a Maverick
A surprise: identifying with a group brings a sense of personal control
By Daniel Yudkin | July 14, 2015
A portable 'paper machine' can diagnose disease for less than $2
Successfully determined whether as few as five cells of E. coli were present in test samples
Jupiter twin discovered around solar twin
Brazilian-led team leading the search for a Solar System 2.0
With teeth like that, this pre-dinosaur vegetarian was no push over
Head-butting and canine display during male-male combat first appeared some 270 million years ago
Researchers have shown that a drug currently in testing shows potential to cure malaria
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and in Australia have shown that a drug currently in testing shows potential to cure malaria in a single dose and offers promise as a preventive treatment as well.
Altruism is simpler than we thought
A new computational model of how the brain makes altruistic choices is able to predict when a person will act generously in a scenario involving the sacrifice of money.
What Is Vascular Dementia?
Response from David B. Reuben, MD
Common mental health drug could be used to treat arthritis
Lithium chloride slowed the degradation associated with osteoarthritis
Gaia satellite and amateur astronomers spot one in a billion star
System Gaia14aae contains large amounts of helium, but no hydrogen
Child paralysis outbreak: UVA identifies potential cause
'We need to keep an open mind' in hunt for pathogen, doctor urges
Women and fragrances: Scents and sensitivity
Why women buy fragrances for their boyfriend, not their best friend
Jurassic saw fastest mammal evolution
Mammals were evolving up to ten times faster in the middle of the Jurassic than they were at the end of the period, coinciding with an explosion of new adaptations, new research shows.
'Winged dragon' dinosaur discovered
Scientists have discovered a winged dinosaur - an ancestor of the velociraptor - that they say was on the cusp of becoming a bird.
'Slim chance' of return from obesity
The chance of returning to a normal weight after becoming obese is only one in 210 for men and one in 124 for women over a year, research suggests.
U of M study explains why hemp and marijuana are different
Genetic differences between hemp and marijuana determine whether Cannabis plants have the potential for psychoactivity, a new study by University of Minnesota scientists shows.
Universal plaque-busting drug could treat various brain diseases
A virus found in sewage has spawned a unique drug that targets plaques implicated in a host of brain-crippling diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
There Are Four Types of Drunks, Says Science
For the people who proudly display their Myers-Briggs results on their online bios, there’s a new personality test you can take.
Finding the origins of life in a drying puddle
Anyone who's ever noticed a water puddle drying in the sun has seen an environment that may have driven the type of chemical reactions that scientists believe were critical to the formation of life on the early Earth.
Yale researchers beat untreatable eczema with arthritis drug
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have successfully treated patients with moderate to severe eczema using a rheumatoid arthritis drug recently shown to reverse two other disfiguring skin conditions, vitiligo and alopecia areata.