From the façades designed by Jean Nouvel, through the “figurative” projects of Herzog & de Meuron, to the digital ...

A hidden structure inside the cell is rewriting how scientists understand leukemia. Beneath the microscope, what looked like ...

In a new book, Steve Ramirez explores the potential of memory manipulation to ease depression and other afflictions.

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

Another week, another brutal knife attack. This time it’s Huntingdon, a quiet market town ripped apart by chaos on a train, ...

For years, doctors have relied on familiar vital signs — heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and oxygen levels — to monitor someone’s health. But researchers at the University of Missouri believe ...

A New York prisoner accused corrections officers of assault and sexual abuse. State officials deemed his claims unfounded despite footage of the encounter.

Questions abound about how to best inoculate the world against swine flu as health officials plan for a campaign that could dwarf any previous flu vaccination effort. Among the issues to be resolved ...

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to ...

Anita Raj, a globally recognized scholar whose research on gender, public health, violence prevention and numerous other areas ranks among the most widely cited in the world, has been elected to the ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

If you see a health claim that seems too good – or too bad – to be true, take a moment to step back and assess the evidence.