Science

Men taking medicines to reduce the symptoms of prostate disease may be more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, a study suggests. Researchers say...

Stress-related disorders -- conditions triggered by a significant life event or trauma -- may be linked to a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD),...

A study provides new insight into why -- and when -- anesthesia during pregnancy harms unborn brains. Most research into prenatal exposure to anesthesia...

Newly published research reveals some interesting, surprising and reassuring data about how one human body adapted to -- and recovered from -- the extreme...

New research shows that the Larsen C ice shelf -- the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica -- experienced an unusual spike in late...

Individual differences in cognitive abilities in children and adolescents are partly reflected in variations in their DNA sequence, according to a new study.

Scientists have used a new type of gene editing CRISPR system for the first time in human cells - a major advance in the...

Researchers have used new imaging software to detect dramatic recovery after a bleaching event on the reefs surrounding remote Palmyra Atoll in the tropical...

Physicists have developed a flexible process allowing the synthesis in a single flow of a wide range of novel nanomaterials with various morphologies, with...

Researchers have found that RssB -- a protein that specifically recognizes a critical stress-response master regulator in bacteria and delivers it to the recycling...