Tag: research

Scientists have long been racking their brains for ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia. Turns ...

For 30 miles we bounce along a dirt road in southwestern Wyoming, heading toward a jagged skyline. It’s early September ...

Postpartum depression affects about one in every seven women who give birth, but little is known about what happens in ...

Women’s brains are superior to men’s in at least in one respect — they age more slowly. And now, a ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University health economist who came to prominence crusading against lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic, faced ...

In 1977, Andrew Barto, as a researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, began exploring a new theory that neurons ...

Imagine you are video chatting with a distant friend who is eating lunch, and your pal’s sandwich looks delicious. What ...

Tea leaves pull heavy metals from water, significantly lowering the amount of lead and other dangerous compounds that people may ...

When OpenAI started giving private demonstrations of its new GPT-4 technology in late 2022, its skills shocked even the most ...

There’s also some debate among scientists about whether epigenetic clocks are the best measure for aging, said Rachel Morello-Frosch, an ...

The Trump administration stormed into office, loudly firing workers and closing diversity programs. But behind the scenes, it has also ...

Q: I get cold sores several times a year. Is there a way to keep them from coming back?It usually ...

Women outlive men, by something of a long shot: In the United States, women have a life expectancy of about ...

The Trump administration has blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on ...

A federal judge on Friday agreed to extend an order blocking the National Institutes of Health from reducing grant funding ...

As part of his pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants to build ...

The Covid-19 vaccines were powerfully protective, preventing millions of deaths. But in a small number of people, the shots may ...

Anyone who has sat through a third-grade science class knows there are three primary states of matter: solid, liquid and ...

The viruses we know best are the ones that make us sick — the influenza viruses that send us to ...

Q: I’ve heard that women need several hours more sleep per night than men do. Is this true?If you browse ...