A new MIT study finds “health knowledge graphs,” which show relationships between symptoms and diseases and are intended to help with clinical diagnosis, can fall short for certain conditions and patient populations.

The brain is a sort of fortress, equipped with barriers designed to keep out dangerous pathogens.

Storm, flood, drought: With global warming, extreme events become more frequent and intense. They especially impact the poorest of the poor.

To fully understand water and its effects on people, scientists suggest water needs new research framework.

CU Boulder-led study predicts millions of additional violent crimes in coming decades.

Extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other type of hazardous weather and will likely become even deadlier due to climate change. 

Knowing that your unborn fetus has congenital heart disease causes such pronounced maternal stress, anxiety and depression that these women’s fetuses end up with impaired development in key brain regions before they are born, according to research published online Jan. 13, 2020, in JAMA Pediatrics. 

New research has shown that diets are changing in complex ways worldwide. 

In the popular book The Demon in the Machine, physicist Paul Davies argues that what’s missing in the definition of life is how biological processes create “information,” and such information storage is the stuff of life, like a bird’s ability to navigate or a human’s ability to solve complex problems.

English and Italian speakers with dementia-related language impairment experience distinct kinds of speech and reading difficulties based on features of their native languages, according to new research by scientists at the UC San Francisco Memory and Aging Center and colleagues at the Neuroimaging Research Unit and Neurology Unit at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan.