Successful obesity treatment should be judged by improvements in health as well as changes on the scales, according to a new ...

People who grew up in less advantaged circumstances tended to have higher death rates in adulthood, a major research review ...

Deleting a signal from a particular group of immune cells helped obese mice retain stronger muscles and run farther, despite ...

Engineers have built a soft robotic fish that combines fast swimming with the ability to turn, climb and dive. Its design ...

A newly identified crocodile relative had exceptionally slender teeth that suggest it fed on tiny aquatic animals rather than ...

Wounds linked to diabetes may struggle to heal partly because immune cells remain in an inflammatory state instead of moving ...

People with a group of blood cancers called myelodysplastic syndromes had weaker bones than adults of similar ages and ...

Researchers have grown an ultrathin material that shows strong evidence of a special electronic state: its interior blocks ...

People receiving a short course of therapy for insomnia reported improvements in both sleep and depression symptoms in a new ...

Researchers have connected tiny water-based droplets into soft networks that can retain traces of previous signals and process changing information. Computer simulations based on laboratory ...

Fruit can be part of a healthy eating pattern for people with type 2 diabetes, even though it contains natural sugar. The ...

A small beetle-inspired robot can walk, turn and pick up objects in response to a user bending and straightening a finger. It ...