The blood pressure medicine that works best for one person may not work best for another, even when the drugs perform similarly on average. A carefully controlled trial suggests that matching ...

Source: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Researchers have filmed an ordered arrangement of tiny magnetic swirls losing its structure in real time ...

Voyager 1 is talking to Earth again after two days of silence. The signal returned on its own on October 20, weeks after NASA completed a separate operation to save electricity and keep the probe’s ...

An electron microscope can reveal the structure of battery materials in extraordinary detail. It can also move the very atoms a researcher wants to study. A new investigation found that the microscope ...

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 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 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 ...

Salty processed foods and sugary drinks can affect kidney health through blood pressure and diabetes. But the idea of a single list of kidney-damaging foods can be misleading, especially for older ...

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