Category: Health and Medicine

For generations, the scientific consensus has been clear: the human brain, though it makes up only about 2% of our body weight, consumes roughly 20% of our energy—and it gets…

They are too small to see, and yet they are everywhere—in oceans and rivers, in food, in the air we breathe. And now, for the first time, they have been…

In a quiet laboratory, a few tiny structures no larger than chia seeds throb rhythmically under a microscope. They are not toys, nor simulations—they are living, beating human heart tissues.…

Lung cancer has long carried the shadow of cigarettes. It’s a disease that, for decades, has been almost synonymous with smoking. But behind the plumes of tobacco and decades of…

In the relentless rhythm of modern life, many of us dream of a shortcut—a way to get the benefits of exercise without having to lace up our sneakers each day.…

In a quiet corner of a lab at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, a group of scientists may have just cracked part of the riddle that has long…

You accidentally bite the inside of your cheek while chewing. It hurts, stings for a moment, and then, astonishingly, it vanishes. Within a day or two, the wound is gone,…

If you’ve ever blamed a late-night slice of pizza or a bowl of ice cream for your restless sleep or bizarre dreams, science may finally be catching up with you.…

In a laboratory half a world apart from one another, scientists in the United States and Sweden are working on a new kind of map—a map that could transform the…

In recent years, a strange new kind of evidence has begun to appear in courtrooms: brain scans. Once the domain of hospitals and labs, MRIs and neural imaging now sit…

Every day, millions of people around the world begin to lose pieces of themselves—memories slipping like grains of sand, familiar faces becoming strangers, once-simple words retreating into fog. Dementia is…

Imagine you’re staring at a screen. A faint image flickers for a moment—was it there? Did you really see it? Or did your brain just fill in the blanks? Now,…

Each time you remember your first day of school or learn something new—like a colleague’s name or how to unlock a new feature on your phone—your brain performs an extraordinary…

For patients confined to hospital beds, nursing homes, or even home care facilities, the biggest threat often doesn’t come from the disease they’re battling—but from the very bed meant to…

For over a century, people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes have been told the same thing: your body has lost the ability to make insulin, and it won’t come back.…

For millions around the world, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a life lived in quiet agony. Chronic pain. Fatigue. Endless bouts of diarrhea. Days structured around restroom access. Relationships, careers,…

As the world battles rising temperatures and faces another summer of record-breaking heat waves, scientists are uncovering a hidden and deadly side effect of our warming planet—one that hits hardest…

Every cell in your body—whether it forms your beating heart, your agile neurons, or the skin you live in—runs on the careful interpretation of a genetic script. That script is…

It sounds like the setup to a riddle: what do the brains of newborn babies and people with Alzheimer’s disease have in common? At first glance, almost nothing. One is…

In the midst of life after breast cancer—between follow-up scans, annual checkups, and cautious hope—many survivors share a common worry: cognitive fog. Dubbed “chemobrain,” it brings forgetfulness, confusion, and slow…

Sleep is as universal as life itself. Birds do it. Fish do it. Humans, cats, elephants, even fruit flies do it. Every species that sleeps follows a rhythm that has…