A new study suggests coffee may influence mood and brain function by changing the activity of microbes in the gut. Both ...

Strengthening the body’s natural daily rhythms helped mice recover after stroke by improving the brain’s waste-clearing ...

A compound the body can make after eating pomegranates, walnuts, and some berries improved measures of heart function by up to 80% in animal models of a difficult-to-treat form of heart failure.

Spaceflight may dramatically change the gut within weeks, causing bacteria to break down more protein as food moves more ...

A beautifully preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has solved a mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly 40 ...

Scientists resurrected antimicrobial peptides from mammals that lived millions of years ago and found that some were more ...

A large health-record analysis found that glucosamine use was associated with a 25% higher likelihood of mild cognitive ...

Measurements of ancient light from the cosmic microwave background suggest that the universe is remarkably flat. But that ...

Pain and fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis can persist even after inflammation improves, with depression, poor sleep, obesity, ...

Scientists have streamlined a method for measuring DNA-bound phosphorus in soil, making it cheaper and easier while ...

Direct oral anticoagulants cut the risk of serious clinical events by 69% in atrial fibrillation patients with an intermediate risk of stroke, according to the randomized SINGLE-AF trial. The benefit ...

Scientists studying ancient Australian rocks uncovered more than 12,000 fossils from some of the oldest known eukaryotes on Earth. These early complex cells lived in settings ranging from coastal ...