One study showed that drinking blood orange juice for a month increased the number of gut bacteria that produce short-chain ...

A discovery by researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine in the US could lead to treatments that clear the troublesome ...

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The waste left over from spent fossil fuel may contain a treasure trove of rare-earth elements worth billions of dollars.

"How often do you poop?" might sound like a very personal question, but your answer could reveal quite a lot about your ...

This week in science: researchers functionally cure type 1 diabetes in mice; a strange new organism could represent a ...

Millions of people around the world live with wounds that simply won't heal. These long-lasting wounds, often caused by ...

A single, half-hour session of moderate exercise is enough to confer an immediate mood-boosting effect, and now scientists ...

As the years pass, it can become harder to get a good night's rest. The most common sleep disorder in middle-aged and older ...

As we get older, our brains start to change in ways that make them increasingly vulnerable to disease – and a detailed new ...

A fifteen-year-old dubbed "Belgium's little Einstein" has completed his PhD in quantum physics in what could be record time.

Scientists have pinpointed precise regions in the human genome where DNA is most likely to develop a mutation.