The preliminary analysis, published in Nature Metabolism, finds initial evidence that a popular supplement, taken by more than 40 million Americans, is associated with faster progression to dementia ...

The team's results, published in AGU Advances, identify and explain what seems to be a paradoxical future scenario: 'young' water getting older, and 'old' water getting younger in ...

Some computations are so hardcore that it takes a facility of extraordinary power to even think about running them.

Going through menopause brings with it major shifts in biology for women, and experts have long wondered whether this could be part of the reason that Alzheimer's disease is notably more common in ...

Imagine picking up a black stone from an old riverbed in Brazil. Its surface shines like glass, but inside it is riddled with tiny holes. Break it open and you would find not one crystal, but a ...

Your dog may prick up its ears at its name or run to the door when it hears "walk." But can its brain separate unfamiliar words when it hears them without a pause? In a new experiment, dogs listened ...

Cancer may seem like an inevitable part of life, but there are so many factors that can help reduce your risk.

Venting when angry seems a sensible option. Conventional wisdom suggests that expressing anger can help us quell it, like ...

Cosmically, Earth can be likened to a planetary puppet 'tugged' by the gravitational strings of the Sun and Moon. And the entire rest of the Universe, of course, but the lunisolar influence helps give ...

One of science's defining aspects is that its findings and ideas are open to empirical debate. But with plate tectonics and feathered dinosaurs firmly entrenched, the next point of debate may hinge ...

Catching signs of dementia early – before the main symptoms have started to show – means a bigger window of opportunity to study the progression of the condition, and to put support in place for those ...

Compared to those with the least amount of gum bleeding, those who experienced the most bleeding were 56 percent more likely ...