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What is the optimal way to learn something new? In a JNeurosci paper, John Byrne and colleagues, from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, bring us a step closer to answering this question by using Aplysia, ...

Despite experiencing significant reductions in triglycerides, patients with triglycerides over 150 mg/dL and a high risk of atherosclerosis did not experience any significant change in the amount of non-calcified plaque in ...

In the early 1970s, the idea of an ordinary person owning a computer sounded absurd. Computers back then were more like aircraft carriers or nuclear power plants than household appliances—vast machines housed in data centers ...

Novel marine mammal health surveillance can now detect deadly diseases in whales and dolphins in oceans, beaches and remote locations, thanks to new research from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The portable unit delivers ...

Family physicians who report feeling burned out are nearly 1.5 times more likely to change practices or stop practicing medicine entirely than their peers who don't report burnout, a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers ...

Researchers have uncovered how a disease-causing bacterium uses a single protein to interfere with the body's defenses in more than one way, offering a clearer picture of how infections take hold at the cellular level. The ...

Bronchiectasis is a long-term health condition in which airways are constantly irritated or inflamed, leading to permanent airway damage and a buildup of mucus. This often causes a chronic cough and infections. People with ...

Douglas Adams told us the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. If only cosmology were so straightforward. Astronomers have been arguing for years about a number every bit as fundamental, and they still can't ...

The debate surrounding the provision of assistance to those wishing to die has long centered on abstract notions such as individual choice and personal autonomy. What is often missing from the discussion, says sociologist ...

People's political persuasions can have a significant influence on their initial response to a global health crisis, according to new research. But while they do tend to respond to guidance issued or followed by their political ...

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy—CAR T for short—has been a major advance in treating blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma. But the immunotherapy has struggled against solid tumors for two main reasons: Tumor ...

This image captured by U.S.-Indian Earth satellite NISAR on Nov. 10, 2025, shows Washington's Mount Rainier. The image is cropped from a much larger swath spanning the Pacific Northwest on a cloudy day; NISAR's L-band SAR ...