Scientists have discovered that vanillin, the compound that gives vanilla its distinctive flavor, has powerful properties ...

Researchers discovered a hidden factor that can determine whether chemical reactions succeed or fail, and then used it to boost the proportion of the desired product from 16% to 97%. By controlling ...

Mathematics may hold unexpected clues to understanding Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists have developed a model showing how ...

A simple change in the order you eat your food could help prevent blood sugar spikes. Scientists discovered that giving mice olive oil before carbohydrates slowed digestion and activated a surprising ...

Scientists have developed an experimental injection that destroys fat cells and significantly reduces dangerous belly fat, ...

A surprisingly simple change in how you walk could help relieve knee arthritis pain and even slow joint damage. In a ...

One of the world's most common plastics may pose a hidden threat to liver health. Texas A&M researchers discovered that ...

Scientists in Vienna have achieved a major breakthrough in timekeeping by creating the world’s first self-stabilizing nuclear clock, a technology that could eventually surpass even the most precise ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory may have found a dramatically more efficient route to fusion energy by reversing the ...

A short course of immunotherapy before surgery may offer remarkably durable protection for some patients with stage two or three bowel cancer. In the NEOPRISM-CRC trial, 32 patients with a specific ...

Neanderthals may have used a sticky substance made from birch bark to treat wounds thousands of years before antibiotics existed. Researchers recreated ancient birch tar production techniques and ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre star system about 300 light-years from Earth where a small star is slowly devouring a nearby brown dwarf, an object too massive to be a planet but too small to be ...