A catastrophic volcanic eruption 7,300 years ago devastated Japan, but new research reveals that its impact on prehistoric ...

Eating blueberries every day could have surprising effects on mood, according to a small study that found greater reductions ...

A study of nearly 90,000 adults found that people consuming the most of a little-known sugar found in red meat had a 63% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Scientists suspect the sugar may ...

A psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms appears to have an unexpected effect: calming highly aggressive fish.

Researchers have uncovered three brain pathways linked to lasting improvements in people receiving deep brain stimulation for ...

Scientists have discovered that many common sweeteners can interfere with gut bacteria, with some combinations involving ...

Scientists have discovered that a protein linked to youth helps protect the brain’s immune cells from age-related decline.

El Niño is fueling a dangerous cascade of wildfires across the tropics, with the Amazon rainforest now experiencing ...

Eating too much salt may do more than raise blood pressure. It could also harm memory and social behavior. In a new study, Japanese researchers discovered that a soy-derived compound called LPC70 ...

Physicists have discovered a strange new state of quantum matter in which ultracold atoms defy familiar organizational rules, forming a highly excited yet surprisingly orderly configuration called a ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising difference in how male and female skin repairs and renews itself. By tracking individual skin stem cells in living mice for five months, researchers discovered ...

Physicists have uncovered a hidden third form of magnetism that challenges more than 100 years of established physics. Called altermagnetism, the discovery could transform future computing and ...