Unlike heart attack, in which heart muscle dies, heart failure is marked by a long-term inability to pump enough blood to bring needed oxygen to the body

Although most wing shapes used today create turbulent wake vortices, wing geometrics can be designed to reduce or eliminate wingtip vortices almost entirely

A team of scientists used ice samples from the North Greenland Ice Core Project to measure, date, and analyze European lead emissions captured between 1100 BC and AD 800

A study shows that by suppressing the production of serotonin, rice plants become more resistant to their two most serious predators

Researchers studied information on 50,943 pregnant women in one of the world's largest health surveys of pregnant women

The tool is designed to be used when standard forensic DNA profiling is not helpful

An increase in hospital-acquired infections are on the rise among US children

A team from KAUST has proposed a simple method that, in just five minutes, can produce a flexible film with a complex hierarchical structure that has repeating patterns of interconnected, regularly shaped pores

Researchers from The Scripps Research Institute are reporting an innovative new method to screen for potential cancer drugs

Tissue samples from study participants' soft palate were analyzed to detect muscle and nerve lesions