Summit County health officials say the county has its first confirmed measles patient — an elementary school student who may have exposed other children to the virus.

Learn why a cardiologist recommends the best breakfast for high blood pressure that's filled with protein, fiber and leafy greens for heart health.

A new Cell study reveals a tablet drug that lowers blood sugar and burns fat without muscle loss or appetite changes.

Bonus: You probably have the necessary gear in your closet right now.

There is no strong evidence that replenishing hormones after menopause is linked to dementia, according to a sweeping meta-analysis.

Traditionally sleep coaches treat babies. But now more and more anxious, screen-attached grownups are the ones who need nursing.

Every other day inside a lab on the third floor of the St. John Plant Science Laboratory building on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, doctoral student Kristen Gaines opens up a refrigerator full of beetle larvae, hoping to find them dead.

'Not a great time,' one health care provider said. 'Get your flu shot.'

In a striking real-world experiment, flu patients spent days indoors with healthy volunteers, but the virus never spread. Researchers found that limited coughing and well-mixed indoor air kept virus levels low, even with close contact. Age may have helped too…

A researcher is planning on investigating potential treatments aimed at the root causes of type 1 diabetes. At the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Leonardo Ferreira, Ph.D., is taking on type 1 diabetes (T1D) with support from a $1 million grant f…

Higher intake of certain food preservatives, common in processed foods, may be linked to a modest increase in cancer risk.

Haemochromatosis is the most common genetic disorder in Northern Ireland and is mostly found in people of Irish and Scots ancestry.

Monday, Jan. 12, 2026: Updates on NASA's astronaut medical evacuation from the International Space Station.

Pilots and passengers are unwitting participants in SpaceX’s test of the most powerful rocket ever built.

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object."

NASA recorded a signal that travelled from deep space over 13 billion years, and lasted merely 10 seconds. This discovery highlights several ignored aspects about the early universe, how time warps in space and how things really unfold in the universe.

First off, but least important for anything other than context: I am older, and my computer skills are what would now be considered ‘limited’. Because graphic analysis and composition takes so much time with the software tools I am familiar with there...

An iceberg that calved from the Antarctic ice sheet in 1986 is dramatically turning blue as it rapidly heads towards total annihilation.

Quantum entanglement happens when two particles become interconnected and share a single state. Scientists have measured how fast it happens.

For the first time, physicists in Italy have created a 'lump soliton': an extremely stable packet of light waves which can travel through 3D space, and even interact with other solitons without losing its shape.

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by combining physical traits in a bizarre way. They're egg-laying mammals with duck bills and beaver-like tails, and the males have venomo…

A team set out to compare two closely related spiders, and stumbled into a paradox. The island species doesn’t behave like island species are supposed to.

Hidden lakes on Mars? Researchers say water could have lasted 50+ years under ice.

NASA’s Gateway is coming to life with a solar-powered spacecraft built to light it up—and move it around the Moon.

Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center is playing a key role in first manned lunar mission in 50 years.