As social media says, microplastics are this generation's lead and asbestos: useful things that seemed hunky-dory – until they weren't. Plastics are ubiquitous because they're durable, versatile, and ...

To us mortals, the flow of time goes one way. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is yet to come, and no matter how precisely and faithfully a clock marks the passing seconds, we can never return to a moment ...

A little-known treatment for heart failure, developed more than half a century ago and refined in the '70s, may have legs as a potential therapy for Alzheimer's patients.

Many people with depression don't respond to existing treatments, and scientists think it might be because of the many different routes people can take to arrive at the same depressive symptoms. A new ...

For more than 80 years, a manuscript penned by one of the founders of quantum physics has been gathering dust in an Austrian library. Now brought to light by physics historian Flavio Del Santo of the ...

The study team determined that tau proteins with certain mutations are more vulnerable to misfolding, and that there's a certain 'hotspot' on these proteins that can connect them together. The hotspot ...

The blood vessels feeding your brain can sustain damage without an obvious warning. Scientists have now linked higher consumption of ultraprocessed foods to signs of that damage in middle-aged adults, ...