Two widely used cholesterol medicines offered similar protection against major cardiovascular problems in a three-year trial. However, rosuvastatin was associated with more newly treated diabetes and ...

A small group of brain cells helps prevent blood pressure from swinging too widely as the body moves between sleep, wakefulness and activity. Scientists found that removing these cells disrupted that ...

Gut bacteria can turn to proteins in the body’s protective intestinal mucus when dietary fibre is scarce. Researchers found that changing their food supply can shift the chemical products the microbes ...

Scientists have found a way to control several silicon quantum bits at once while keeping errors very low. Their method maintained control accuracy above 99.9% when all five quantum bits in an ...

A familiar medicine that relaxes blood vessels has been tested as a possible way to improve blood supply to the brain. The trial did not find a clear overall benefit, but it offers useful clues for ...

A wandering mind can make everyday tasks harder, but it may also help some people connect ideas in unexpected ways. A research review suggests that the attention patterns associated with ADHD can ...

A device that delivers gentle electrical pulses through the ear was practical to use at home in a small blood-pressure trial.

Adding one extra electron-trapping region to a quantum device helped researchers control it quickly while making it less ...

Lower sugar exposure during the earliest years of life was linked to lower rates of several cancers and signs of slower ...

Common low-calorie sweeteners can alter the growth of gut bacteria, and some effects become stronger when the sweeteners are ...

Scientists have discovered how a change usually linked to battery aging could be controlled to improve a promising electrode ...

An apparently modest cosmic explosion produced one of the brightest afterglows astronomers have seen in two decades.