According to the CDC, someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds, equating to more than 795,000 cases a year. The National Stroke Association reports that 40% of stroke patients will experience...

Sleep has many benefits that are widely known, but did you know it can also help you remember new information for long periods of time? In a 2019 article published in Science Advances, L. Himmer and colleagues...

Stereotypically, some men are notorious for claiming they “never get sick.” However, their own genetic material may soon prove them wrong. Research has shown that males on average experience...

The skin is the body’s largest organ, and it’s also the one that takes the most abuse. Daily the skin is subject to the sun’s harmful rays, pollution, dirt, and many other damaging substances....

How much does your food cost? The resources required to feed almost 8 billion people are damaging to the environment. A 2018 study published in Science, by Dr. J Poore and colleagues, highlights the true...

Deterioration of cognitive capabilities is a normal part of aging, especially in the case of attention. But, is it possible that physical and mental exercises might slow down or even reverse nature’s...

Our lives are governed by plastics. Every sip of your coffee, every mile you drive, and every pill you swallow are all deeply connected to plastic. Now, plastics may even affect the marine biodiversity....

Hemispherectomy is a rare, radical surgery in which a cerebral hemisphere is removed in order to treat the most extreme of epilepsy cases. Neurosurgeons turn to this invasive treatment after typical epilepsy...

Most people are familiar with the concepts of one dimension, two dimensions, and three dimensions, known as1D, 2D, and 3D, respectively. Few people can stretch their imagination to understand 4D. But,...

Cigarettes have always been the first source to blame for lung disease; however, there’s a new sheriff in town... E-cigarettes. The ongoing national surge of electronic-cigarettes and vaping product...

Something about the fish oil industry is fishy, and it is not just the oil. Fish oil supplements have been a trusted staple in the medicine cabinets of many Americans since the late 1980s. In 2012,...

The youthful brain is a storm of activity. Information pours in through the senses while the brain builds fresh neurons to meet the need. But sometime within our first decade of life, the brain becomes...