Australian researchers have identified a promising new approach that could help stop one of the most aggressive forms of ...

Sleep plays an important role in preparing the brain to absorb information and in stabilizing newly formed memories. In the study, the nap appeared to replenish the brain’s ability to encode and ...

For someone trying to leave cigarettes behind, the method they choose can make a measurable difference. An updated Cochrane ...

The Helix Nebula offers a rare look at what happens after a dying star releases its outer layers into space. New observations show fragments of that material colliding with surrounding gas, breaking ...

Some planets orbit so close to their stars that intense radiation should strip away their atmospheres. Yet several of these scorching, lava-covered worlds still retain thick gaseous envelopes, ...

A more than decade-long randomized trial suggests that implantable cardioverter-defibrillators may benefit some patients who have heart scarring and only mild-to-moderate loss of heart function, a ...

Scientists have long suspected that both genes and environmental exposures contribute to cluster headaches. Two studies from ...

Princeton’s PACMAN AI can control fusion plasma in milliseconds and predict dangerous instabilities before they start.

Tau normally helps support the internal structure of neurons. When it becomes abnormal, however, it can collect into tangles ...

On August 26, the Swift team reactivated the spacecraft’s Ultraviolet/Optical and X-ray telescopes. Both had been turned off ...

MIT researchers have engineered bacteria that can function as transistors, allowing them to create “living circuit boards” ...

An atom in a cavity between two mirrors (left) acts as a heat engine in a driven-dissipative quantum system in which energy ...