Analysis of cancer growing adjacent to the brain reveals that bone-eroding cells interfere with lymphatic drainage vessels ...

Deep beneath the skin of hundreds of thousands of children worldwide, a slender silicone tube quietly performs one of medicine’s most vital tasks: draining excess cerebrospinal fluid away from the b ...

To enable movement, perception, memory, reasoning, emotion and various other functions, the human brain heavily relies on communication between different regions. This communication also takes place ...

Hundreds of scientific studies have found that breathing in fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) over the course of hours to days (short-term) and months to years (long-term) can lead to a variety of ...

Food-related taxes and subsidies can incentivize shifts towards more sustainable food systems. A modelling study estimates how a greenhouse gas tax would affect food consumption, considering the ...

Scientists have discovered that the brain’s short-range wiring may help protect cognition even as gray matter shrinks with age. Healthier connections just beneath the brain’s surface were linked to ...

This article is part of a special package on “Impossible Questions”—scientific quandaries that may never get definitive answers. Read the rest of the collection here. I used to have a more interesting ...