Sorbitol, a sugar alcohol commonly used in sugar-free candy, gum, and other low-calorie foods, may not be as harmless as it seems. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis found that the body ...

Indonesia’s dangerous peat fires are surging early in the 2026 fire season as a strengthening El Niño and severe drought dry ...

Persistent financial hardship in early and middle adulthood was linked to poorer thinking skills by the 50s and more signs of ...

Heart disease and chronic kidney disease can accelerate one another, but new guidelines say simple screening and early ...

Scientists have found evidence that vulnerability to rheumatoid arthritis may begin before birth. Finger joints commonly ...

Scientists in Japan have identified a natural compound found in blueberries, grapes, and other berries that may help muscle ...

Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed ...

Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet ...

A common frog found across Ecuador and Colombia has finally been recognized as its own species after more than a century of mistaken identity. Museum specimens from the 1800s helped scientists reveal ...

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected a rare particle interaction that looks unusually difficult to explain as ordinary ...

Harvard researchers have transformed ordinary knitting into a platform for creating fabrics that can snap between different ...

MIT researchers have created bacterial “transistors” that can be wired together into living circuits capable of performing ...