Oil is a global market, so when prices rise in one place, they rise everywhere. The current war against Iran has already ...

Diabetes has become one of the most common long-term health problems in the world. In the United States alone, tens of millions of people live with the disease. Diabetes happens when the body cannot ...

What makes a song become a hit today? While listeners certainly play a role, new research suggests that streaming platforms and their algorithms also have a powerful influence on which songs rise to ...

Diabetes is a long‑term health condition that affects how the body uses sugar. Sugar, also called glucose, is an important source of energy for the body’s cells. Normally, a hormone called insulin ...

Excess body weight increases inflammation in the body and places extra strain on the heart. The report predicts that more than sixty percent of women may have obesity by 2050, compared with roughly ...

Many electric vehicle (EV) owners notice the same frustrating problem during winter: their car’s battery seems to drain faster, and charging takes longer than usual. When temperatures drop to around ...

As NASA prepares for future missions that could send astronauts back to the Moon, scientists are trying to answer an important question: what will those astronauts eat during long stays on the lunar ...

As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our home looks southeast, and on winter nights the constellation Orion hangs ...

Two recent studies published in Scientific Reports explored how plants and microbes might survive in soils that mimic those found on the Moon and Mars. The results show that life may be able to grow ...

A study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine has found that signs of silent heart damage or stress in the blood may strongly increase the risk of heart failure in people who already have high ...

Another possible sign is jaundice, which causes the skin and the whites of the eyes to turn yellow. Jaundice occurs when the liver cannot properly remove a yellow substance called bilirubin from the ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have created a new kind of robot that can adapt, recover from damage, and keep moving even after being broken apart. The machines, called “legged metamachines,” ...