Every organ and tissue progressively loses function as it ages, but aging tissues retain a latent capacity for rejuvenation.

Most people's blood pressure falls by 10 to 20 per cent while they sleep, giving the heart and blood vessels a chance to recover. But for some people, that nighttime dip never happens. Known as ...

PHILADELPHIA – A decade of uterus transplantation in the United States has resulted in dozens of healthy births and steadily improving surgical outcomes, according to a new national review led by ...

Alpine plants, including grass-like sedges and rushes, and low-growing shrubs called heaths, on the rocky summit of Algonquin Peak, located in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. In ...

Older Americans are increasingly taking multiple prescription medications and dietary supplements. Although the prevalence of potentially major drug-drug interactions has declined slightly, more than ...

Dog brains segment speech into words in a way previously seen only in humans, a new study from Hungary finds. This suggests that efficient speech processing is not necessarily a consequence of humans’ ...

Stroke rates among adults ages 20 to 54 nearly doubled over a 27-year period in a large U.S. population study. The increase was driven primarily by ischemic strokes, the most common type of stroke.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Cannabis is often used as a stress reliever, but a new study suggests that some of the body’s stress response systems don’t get the message. A human trial of regular cannabis users ...

Unlike the earth, the Moon no longer has a core-generated magnetic field today. On our planet, the movement of liquid iron in the outer core generates a global magnetic field. This so-called geodynamo ...

A quadruped robot ran 42.195 km, a distance that is not easy even for humans to complete, without replacing its battery. KAIST researchers have developed this world-first achievement into design ...

New groundbreaking research from the University of St Andrews has created the largest combined bat genome and fossil study ever undertaken, finding that bats most likely originated in Europe around 65 ...

More than 90% of children born with the rare bone marrow condition called Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome (SDS) survive beyond age 20. But fewer than 30% live beyond age 50. However, longer-term survival ...