New study by UC Riverside psychologist Sara C. Mednick may explain why sleep improves memory

This study—the first to visualize this process in lymph nodes—could help scientists better understand how to turn up or down the immune system's activity to treat autoimmune diseases, infections, or even cancer

Satellite radar images reveal ground movement of infamous sinkholes near Wink, Texas and suggest the two existing holes are expanding, and new ones are forming as nearby subsidence occurs at an alarming rate

Finding may reveal dysfunction in the brains of individuals with obesity

“As our climate continues to warm, droughts will become more frequent and more extreme," researcher says

But the WHO pulls back from earlier statements that coffee itself is “possibly carcinogenic”

Berkeley Lab scientists replace iron in muscle protein with non-biological metal

The detection of ionized oxygen indicates that many very brilliant stars, several dozen times more massive than the Sun, have formed in the galaxy and are emitting the intense ultraviolet light needed to ionize the oxygen atoms

UCLA research may also help scientists suppress dangerous genetic sequences

Scientists found that espresso machines can quickly and inexpensively perform some complex chemistry experiments