Analysis of a Welsh program offering live-attenuated shingles vaccines to people born after a certain date showed a 20 percent relative drop in dementia risk.

A miso test on the International Space Station shows fermenting food is not only possible in space, it adds nuttier notes to the Japanese condiment.

A phenomenon called liquefaction, which causes the ground to slump like quicksand, led to significant damage after the Myanmar earthquake. The risk of aftershock remains high.

The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

Charge-parity violation is thought to explain why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe. Scientists just spotted it in a new place.

A spacecraft traveling at one-tenth of the speed of light could shave the trip down to a quick 40 years. Future engineers could use nuclear power to achieve that, says Scott Bailey, an engineer at ...

Mandimycin, which targets a different essential fungi cell resource than other antifungal drugs, should harm other cell types as collateral — but doesn’t.

A new set of artificial intelligence models could make protein sequencing even more powerful for better understanding cell biology and diseases.

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.