Tau normally helps support the internal structure of neurons. When it becomes abnormal, however, it can collect into tangles ...

A more than decade-long randomized trial suggests that implantable cardioverter-defibrillators may benefit some patients who have heart scarring and only mild-to-moderate loss of heart function, a ...

At roughly 60 kilometers (around 40 miles) above Earth, the fireball enters Phase 4 and reaches a melting equilibrium. Its ...

The Galápagos Verde 2050 (GV2050) program responded by raising plants in nurseries and carefully returning them to the wild.

Long-lived bats appear to share genetic defenses against viruses, cancer, and aging. Studying how these systems overlap may ...

Scientists have long suspected that both genes and environmental exposures contribute to cluster headaches. Two studies from ...

The largest survey ever conducted among physicists worldwide reveals surprisingly little agreement on some of the field’s ...

An atom in a cavity between two mirrors (left) acts as a heat engine in a driven-dissipative quantum system in which energy ...

Taken together, the two studies suggest that naturally occurring bacterial molecules such as gladiolin can act against ...

Blood pressure drugs can prevent heart attacks and strokes, but their protection may fade when too many doses are missed.

Even when inflammatory bowel disease appears under control, intestinal cells may remain primed to die. In a WEHI-led study, ...

Researchers found that urolithin A improved relaxation in engineered human heart tissue and reduced several hallmarks of ...