A massive analysis involving more than 100 million people has found strong links between recreational drug use and stroke, ...

Greenland sharks may live for 400 years without suffering the kind of retinal decline normally associated with aging.

A decades-old compound may point to a new way of treating obesity by making the body burn more energy rather than simply ...

Mice that developed compulsive drinking after alcohol abstinence showed more than double the activity in a brain region ...

Older adults with mild cognitive impairment and sleep problems who took at least 5,000 IU of vitamin D daily scored more than ...

Astronomers have found stars that repeatedly skim past supermassive black holes, surviving each encounter while producing a ...

Peppermint oil may have an unexpected benefit for people with mildly high blood pressure. Adults who took a small dose twice ...

Astronomers using JWST have discovered that massive early galaxies contain far more small, faint stars than expected. That ...

People who speak several languages may have brains that age more slowly, with four-language speakers showing brains that ...

Freezing the liquid core of an optical fiber produced an extreme environment where light and sound interact more than 1,000 ...

A daily avocado may help lower heart disease risk in adults with obesity by reducing the number of LDL particles circulating in the blood. After six months, participants who ate an avocado each day ...

Exercise may not be a powerful weight-loss tool on its own, but it appears to play a much bigger role in preventing lost ...