Many people find their waistlines widen as they get older even when the number on the weighing scale doesn't change drastically. Although there is some debate over the reasons for the build-up of ...

Scientists have long dreamed of discovering the alchemy by which chemicals can be turned into life. On Wednesday, a team at the University of Minnesota announced that it had taken a major step toward ...

Getting hold of your boarding pass used to be straightforward. You'd check in at the airport, and staff at the desk would print it for you. However, these days, with ...

A common brain protein may be giving Alzheimer’s disease an unexpected way to spread, carrying toxic Tau proteins from damaged neurons into healthy ones. By blocking these harmful protein packages ...

Bacteria-killing viruses have destroyed cancer cells in mice by redirecting the immunity they built up from vaccinations to attack tumours. Vaccinating mice against malaria and then using a harmless ...

Cells can spontaneously change shape even without external signals, but the underlying mechanisms behind this form of self-organization have remained unclear. Now, researchers from Japan have ...

Daniel Cressy, 23, says path leading to completion of curative gene therapy is his ‘greatest blessing’ A young south-eastern Louisiana man recently became the first person in his region to be ...

(TestMiles) – Electric vehicle batteries have always had one obvious problem: they are powerful, expensive, heavy, and generally shaped like bricks. Engineers then spend years designing cars around ...