A patient with an unusual variation of the condition helped researchers visualize the demonic distortions he sees when looking at human faces.
Two new studies document rare cases in which people who rinsed sinuses with unsterilized tap got infected with brain-eating amoebas.
Iloprost has been shown to prevent the need to amputate frozen fingers and toes. It’s now approved for use to treat severe frostbite in the U.S.
Researchers are studying the magnitude and impact that grief from the COVID-19 pandemic has had and will have for years to come.
A growing cadre of labs are sketching out some of the molecular and cellular characters at play in long COVID, a once-seemingly inscrutable disease.
Experiments in mice reveal that the immune response to a UTI spurs nerve growth in the bladder and lowers the pain threshold.
A new analysis suggests that the prevalence of obesity has doubled in women, tripled in men and quadrupled in children and adolescents from 1990 to 2022.
A lab-made protein protected mice from lethal doses of paralyzing toxins found in a variety of snakes, a new study reports.
In 1974, a computer program helped researchers search for promising cancer drugs. Today, AI is helping speed up drug discovery.
Science News spoke with expert Allison Agwu about what’s driving the surge and how we can better prevent the disease.
