Prions are one of nature's cruelest tricks. Proteins are chains of amino acids that need to fold in very specific ways – a process that does not always work as intended. Your body is pretty good at ...

Detecting planets outside of our Solar System mostly relies on measuring minute changes in the light of distant stars. If this were akin to finding a needle in a haystack, astronomers would delight.

You've probably heard of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, but did you know there's possibly a third option as well? For just over two decades now, some scientists have argued that type 3 diabetes is an apt ...

Catching signs of dementia early – before the main symptoms have started to show – means a bigger window of opportunity to study the progression of the condition, and to put support in place for those ...

Can monkeys get Alzheimer's, or is the disease unique to humans? As African green monkeys age, their brains can develop some changes that resemble those seen in Alzheimer's.

The textbooks and history lessons tend to treat the Black Death as one devastating wave of pestilence that hit Europe between 1347 and 1353.

Some computations are so hardcore that it takes a facility of extraordinary power to even think about running them.

Cancer may seem like an inevitable part of life, but there are so many factors that can help reduce your risk.

Going through menopause brings with it major shifts in biology for women, and experts have long wondered whether this could be part of the reason that Alzheimer's disease is notably more common in ...

The preliminary analysis, published in Nature Metabolism, finds initial evidence that a popular supplement, taken by more than 40 million Americans, is associated with faster progression to dementia ...

Venting when angry seems a sensible option. Conventional wisdom suggests that expressing anger can help us quell it, like ...

The team's results, published in AGU Advances, identify and explain what seems to be a paradoxical future scenario: 'young' water getting older, and 'old' water getting younger in ...