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A large McGill University study has found that two classes of medications commonly prescribed for type 2 diabetes, both incretin-based, are associated with a reduced risk of dementia.

Mounting evidence from research on nematodes to mice indicate that a father's environment, such as what he eats or if he is exposed to stress or toxicants, can lead to metabolic and behavioral disorders in his offspring.

The primary reason to be vaccinated against shingles is that two shots provide at least 90% protection against a painful, blistering disease that a third of Americans will suffer in their lifetimes, one that can cause lingering ...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most common type of pancreatic cancer and begins in the cells lining the pancreatic duct. Accounting for more than 90% of all pancreatic cancers, PDAC is extremely difficult ...

For the second year in a row, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, or DASH Diet, developed in part by scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, has been recognized as the best heart-healthy diet in the ...

Researchers from the Optics Group at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón have managed to correct in real time problems related to image aberrations in single-pixel microscopy using a recent technology: programmable deformable ...

Cut the words "please" and "thank you" from your next ChatGPT query and, if you believe some of the talk online, you might think you are helping save the planet.

New research finds companies investing heavily in new technologies despite low returns are often the ones driving tomorrow's economic progress.

Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed "web 2.0." The world wide web of the 1990s had largely been read-only: static pages, hand-built homepages, portal sites with content from a few ...

Of all the types of breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive and lacks specific therapies. TNBC is also more likely to metastasize, or travel through the bloodstream to spread to other organs, ...

Many animals do something that still surprises researchers: females often mate with more than one male. This behavior—polyandry—has long raised a blunt question. Why divide offspring among multiple fathers, and does it ...

A study led by researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of Rhode Island (URI) provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of the economic damage caused by recurring sargassum ...