Frailty is a medically defined condition in older adults that increases vulnerability to everyday stresses, leading to a higher risk of falls, hospitalization and loss of independence. Warning signs of frailty include:

A new study confirms that dietary patterns like the Mediterranean diet and the MIND diet and suggest that inflammatory diets may increase someone's chances of developing dementia.

A new study examined the evidence for 64 supplements that claim to treat depression. Only four may actually work.

New research published Tuesday concludes that the rising rate of extreme childhood obesity—well above the usual BMI cutoff—has become a "public health emergency."

The National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo reports that a newly isolated gut bacterium, designated Hominenteromicrobium strain YB328, mobilizes specialized dendritic cells to strengthen the impact of PD-1 blockade immunotherapy across several tumo…

The COVID virus can cause brain inflammation, which, in some cases, becomes more serious and increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Startup GABA Labs is testing an additive that it says will take nonalcoholic drinks to the next level.

From helping your liver to detoxing pesky excess estrogen, the humble broccoli is not to be slept on. Here are the 3 biggest benefits of the vegetable.

Vitamins? Minerals? Botanicals? Extracts? Choosing the right supplements can be confusing. An expert offers five tips to help you get the biggest bang for your buck.

Scientists discover a radioactive spike of beryllium-10 (10Be) in Pacific Ocean sediments, revealing ancient climatic and cosmic events.

As NASA continues work to find a fix for the thruster issues that have afflicted Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi, chances are high that the spacecraft's next mission will be uncrewed.

A remarkable 2.35 billion year old meteorite found in Africa in 2023 has opened a new window into the Moon's volcanic history, filling a gap in our understanding of how Earth's closest neighbour evolved over billions of years.

Wild tomatoes from the Galápagos Islands are reversing evolution and regaining an ancient chemical defense after millions of years.

"Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories that help us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems."

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold hydrogen, new research reveals. They could help scientists figure out when our galaxy's black hole last erupted.

Some jumping spiders look so much like wasps that scientists named them for the predatory insects.

Named Ammonite, the distant object casts doubt on the existence of the elusive Planet Nine.

The aurora borealis has a chance to appear for viewers in Alaska and the upper Midwest, including Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

More Used Satellite Bargains At NASA

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a taste for ants and termites.

A new method turns noise into valuable data to enhance understanding of chemical reactions and material properties with unprecedented detail at the atomic level. The results of this research are now published in Nature.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our Milky Way galaxy. The Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) is about 60 parsecs—or 200 light years—long.

10 supernova explosions have been seen brightening the Fireworks Galaxy over the past century.

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that if interstellar object 3I/ATLAS isn't a comet, nor an asteroid, it may have been "sent" to us.

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest — but an independent analysis shows they might be off by at least 800 million years.