Obesity is associated with a huge range of serious health problems, raising your risk of heart disease, multiple cancers, and overall mortality.

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Many people with depression don't respond to existing treatments, and scientists think it might be because of the many different routes people can take to arrive at the same depressive symptoms.

A little-known treatment for heart failure, developed more than half a century ago and refined in the '70s, may have legs as a potential therapy for Alzheimer's patients.

Regular exercise is one of the best ways to stay fit and healthy, but many of us lack the time or motivation to stick to a workout schedule.

As social media says, microplastics are this generation's lead and asbestos: useful things that seemed hunky-dory – until they weren't. Plastics are ubiquitous because they're durable, versatile, and ...

For all their promise, quantum computers have a hard time modeling the interactions between the two families of building blocks that underlie our Universe – can you imagine a chef that struggles to ...

Just when you thought it was safe to enter the benthic depths of the Indian Ocean, a new eldritch horror emerges from the darkness.

Body fat can bring health benefits as well as health problems, depending on where it is and how much of it there is.

Our early Earth was a heavy metal album cover: a molten ball covered in a global lava ocean, spewing lethal gases while being pelted by the flaming space-rocks of our Solar System's violently chaotic ...

For thousands of years, a mysterious army has stood vigil – silent and impassive in the dark, never wavering from their solemn duty.

But anyone who has slept with a dog knows they can be a total nuisance. They can take over your mattress, snore loudly in your ear, and drool on your pillow. Throughout the night, they repeatedly ...