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 ...

In the US, the official health recommendations for fruit are two cups per day for a diet based on 2,000 daily calories – but it's estimated that 8 in 10 people aren't reaching that level, and ...

Over the past decade, a network of usually pristine blue rivers and lakes that winds through Alaska's breathtaking Brooks Range mountains has been starting to look a little… rusty. Scientists first ...

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 ...

If anything is forever in this Universe, it's black holes – or so their physics suggests. These ultra-dense objects are possessed of inexorable gravitational fields. Matter goes in. Very little ever ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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