A promising new study suggests rheumatoid arthritis may not be as inevitable as once thought for people at high risk.

Kitchen sponges release microplastics as they wear down during everyday use, with some sponge types shedding far more than ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize the search for alien worlds by discovering around 100,000 exoplanets—far ...

A stunning spiral galaxy called Messier 88 is racing through the crowded Virgo Cluster on a journey that will dramatically ...

A long-overlooked organ may hold surprising clues to healthy aging and cancer survival. Researchers at Mass General Brigham used AI to analyze CT scans from tens of thousands of adults and found that ...

Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising navigation system in pigeons: iron-filled immune cells in the liver that may act like ...

Melanoma may not become steadily more dangerous with age as scientists once assumed. In a surprising discovery, researchers found that cancer spread was lowest in young mice, surged in middle-aged ...

Losing weight may involve rewiring the gut and the brain at the same time. In a study of obese adults, an intermittent ...

A specially formulated tomato-soy juice packed with natural plant compounds may help calm inflammation linked to obesity, according to a new clinical study. Healthy adults with obesity who drank the ...

Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that ...

New DNA evidence shows that Europe’s hunter-gatherers and early farmers interacted far more closely than previously thought, with women likely playing a crucial role in spreading farming across ...