New research indicates that perceiving one’s social group as possessing inner spiritual strength can drive members to extreme ...

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, our skin tissue—and in fact many types of epithelial tissue that lines and covers the ...

Within the fields of everyday carry and travel security, the zipper lock is a category whose core structure has rarely been reexamined. For decades, most designs have relied on keys or simple ...

Happy relationships protect heart health as strongly as traditional risk factors, but most cardiac care ignores this ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have uncovered how aging "zombie cells" trigger harmful inflammation that accelerates a severe and ...

Metal nanostructures can concentrate light so strongly that they can trigger chemical reactions. The key players in this ...

Key Takeaways Research demonstrates that Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOPs) achieve comparable success rates of 50-70% to ...

Fried and greasy foods “slow gastric emptying, trigger visceral hypersensitivity and promote intestinal inflammation,” said ...

Researchers uncovered how shifting levels of a brain protein called KCC2 can reshape the way cues become linked with rewards, sometimes making habits form more quickly or more powerfully than expected ...

Researchers discovered that a tiny structural feature of the enzyme GPX4 helps keep neurons safe. A rare mutation removes this protection, allowing harmful molecules to damage cell membranes and ...

Leon Bellan, associate professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt, and his team have developed a novel cooling-triggered device that could allow patients to safely and ...

Inflammaging, defined as chronic, low-grade, systemic inflammation that increases with age in the absence of overt infection, is a phenomenon that was first described in 2000 as a member of a growing ...