A large study of children using melatonin has found that the supplement was associated with a small reduction in the...

Wildfire smoke has become an increasingly important source of prenatal air pollution in the United States, even as overall exposure...

A genetic switch that determines whether butterfly lily flowers develop as mirror-image left- or right-handed forms has been identified for...

Herpes zoster, commonly known as shingles, is being targeted by a new vaccine candidate in a large phase 3 clinical...

SARS-CoV-2 vaccine research is moving beyond the traditional injection-based approach, with scientists examining whether immunity can be established directly at...

Scientists have reconstructed the most complete diploid human genome yet produced, creating a high-resolution sequence that contains both copies of...

For patients with advanced head and neck cancer, the race against time does not end when a tumor is removed....

Ménière’s disease, a disabling inner-ear disorder marked by recurrent vertigo, fluctuating hearing loss, tinnitus, and a sensation of pressure or...

The human brain may owe its extraordinary expansion not only to meat and other animal foods, but also to the...

Software developers have long faced a frustrating paradox: the programs that must be made faster are often too complex to...