Mice might look cute and harmless, but like many uninvited guests, they can cause real problems in your garden, shed, or even inside the home. Indoors, they chew through wires, damage furniture, and ...

Nutrition policy expert Marion Nestle says that when she wrote her first book, Food Politics, in 2002, people often asked her what food had to do with politics. "Nobody asks me that anymore," Nestle ...

The first time I accepted that my grandpa was really aging was when I held his hand. His grip was strong as ever. But the skin on his hand was wafer thin and carried tell-tale signs of bruising across ...

Instead of targeting neurons, the researchers specifically sought to repair a critical part of the brain that keeps disease-inducing toxins out. Reading time 2 minutes Scientists on Tuesday reported ...

Every time you eat a meal, you’re hosting a dinner party. Your guests are the trillions of microbes that live in your gut. These hungry microbes, collectively known as your gut microbiome, directly ...

Summary: “Mind reading” evokes images of futuristic scanners, but a study published in Nature Neuroscience demonstrates that a simple video may be enough. Using machine learning techniques, a team at ...

WASHINGTON, October 1 - An impasse between Republican President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats has triggered the 15th U.S. government shutdown since 1981. Here is a look at what sparked the ...

Scientists have a new clue in the long quest to decipher what makes us uniquely human: tiny changes in brain chemistry that set us apart from our closest hominin cousins. In a study published Monday ...

The human body is teeming with microbes, especially in the gut, and they're not just freeloaders. To coexist smoothly, our bodies need to know what these tiny residents are up to. We already know that ...

If you’re like me, bananas are probably one of those foods you don’t think twice about. It’s easy to grab when running out the door (late for something yet again), sweet enough to feel like a treat, ...