From osteoarthritis to a splitting migraine, when you're experiencing pain, exercise can seem like the last thing you want or think you should do. But according to new Adelaide University research pub ...

Stroke is becoming more common among younger adults, according to a study published September 23, 2026, in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers found t ...

The Human Genome Project was launched in 1990, preceded by decades of breakthroughs in genetics. It eventually gave us a sequence of the human genome. Yet, while the physical rules behind the genome&r ...

When Caitlin Bloomer wrestled the massive Crawzilla crawdad — yes, that’s its actual common name — out of the muck during a bio-survey event in Kentucky, she was convinced it was the ...

What was quotidian Ancient Egyptian life like? Author Sam Kean shares the experimental archaeology that's resurrecting the ...

In neurodegenerative blinding diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa, the eye’s primary light-capturing photoreceptors ...

The numbers paint a grim picture. Roughly half of all U.S. adults are lonely, according to a 2023 report, and nearly as many feel socially isolated. Though just as serious as other health risks, lonel ...

The more astronomers learn about the universe’s earliest galaxies, the stranger they seem. Many of their surprising properties may be explained by differences between their massive stars and tho ...

Arrange identical building blocks into a repeating, orderly structure. At the microscopic scale, though, even subtle biases in how particles interact ...

We imagine advanced alien civilizations building gigantic spaceships, Dyson spheres and empires spanning entire galaxies. But ...

Alcohol use among U.S. adults has fallen for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, though rates remain higher than pre-pandemic levels, according to a new Keck Medicine of USC study publis ...

Exposure to sugar in the first 1,000 days of a child's life increases the risk of developing anxiety in adulthood, according to a new study from the University of Surrey published in Translational Psy ...