Survey participants who reported using a smartphone while on the toilet had a higher risk of hemorrhoids than non-users.

When people think of nature sounds, they likely imagine birds singing at dawn or frogs calling after rain. But beneath the ...

Microplastics are tiny, plastic fragments — many too small to see — found in the air, soil and water. Measuring their ...

Mice turning tiny steering wheels to move shapes on a screen have helped scientists produce the first brain-wide map of ...

Polyamines are natural molecules that promote healthy aging but are also linked to cancer progression, presenting a ...

A new IIASA-led study for the first time maps safe areas that can practically be used for underground carbon storage, and estimates that using them all would only cut warming by 0.7°C. The result is ...

Director, Human Islet and Adenovirus Core, Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, and The Friedman Brain Institute at Mount Sinai Paul J. Kenny, PhD, Ward-Coleman Professor and Chair of the Nash ...

New consumer patient research from the American Heart Association, conducted by The Olinger Group, finds that most people with AFib (62%) had no prior knowledge of the condition before being diagnosed ...

The study, published Sept. 3 in JAMA Network Open, found that older adults living in flood-hit areas in New Jersey faced a 5% ...

New research from Princeton University uncovers why bone metastasis often leads to anemia Cancer specialists have long known ...

Researchers have developed a transparent solar concentrator that can be directly coated onto architectural glass, enabling colorless and unidirectional solar energy collection. This new design, based ...

Triple-negative breast cancer is particularly aggressive and difficult to treat; but recent research may offer a new way to target the often-deadly disease.