Carrying too much body fat can have lasting effects on the brain, not to mention other organs. A new study shows that the risk of declining brain health may relate to where on the body fat is stored.

When you do a home test, bring the results to your next doctor’s appointment, who can help you evaluate the results so you ...

Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than ...

Kidney disease often creeps in silently, and many patients aren’t diagnosed until major damage is already done. New research ...

Things break, that's just a fact of life, and we may not have a general understanding of how things fragment, we may have figured out the results.

Personal Perspective: "Normal" isn’t perfection but a statistical range based on population data. Diagnoses compare ...

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Discover how probability distribution methods can help predict stock market returns and improve investment decisions. Learn to assess risk and potential gains.

Tests that simulate the temperatures and pressures which the reactor systems will be subjected to during normal operation have been completed at unit 7 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China's ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have low thyroid levels. My blood tests say that the levels are OK, but I still have all the symptoms. I received biological hormones, which helped a lot, but yams bind to the ...

A material that slips through skin might someday make needle-free insulin possible for people with diabetes. In mice and mini pigs, attaching the permeating polymer to insulin and applying the ...