A new pill for treating dementia is delivering promising "topline" results in early-stage clinical trials, according to a recent press release by its makers.

A black seed, long used in cooking and traditional medicine, has shown promise in lowering cholesterol levels in a new ...

A strange phenomenon thought to only exist near the Sun has been detected in Earth's magnetic field for the first time.

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We don't yet have a cure for dementia, but we do have a growing list of factors that may influence risk – including exercise, ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

Traces of a previously unknown group of people, genetically distinct from their neighbors, have persisted for at least 8,000 ...

A resident of Washington state has died after contracting a rare strain of bird flu previously only reported in animals, ...

Undercooked turkey remains a leading cause of Thanksgiving-related illness. Raw turkey drippings can also easily spread ...

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Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists haven't been exactly sure how it works.

Geoscientists have solved an age-old mystery of oceanic volcanism and plate tectonics, explaining why some islands contain so much continental material despite their distance from continental plates.