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Stop washing your teeth with charcoal, scientists urge.
For some patients, drilling holes through the skull is their best chance at beating addiction.
Sweet, sweet research.
This could help us keep dangerous viruses at bay.
Eating lots of sugar makes us fat. It also deadens sweet buds, fueling a vicious cycle.
Not all bodies are the same.
Chow down.
This could deal a huge blow to HIV.
Some drugs designed to treat certain conditions can accidentally work for other diseases.
A gene that helps our pancreata repair can also lead to sickness.
What makes a person creative?
Marijuana might counter-intuitively actually motivate people to exercise more.
Stress -- we're all familiar with it. Let's have a detailed look at its effects.
Modern genetics sheds new light on these ancient religious wars.
New tech could inactivate airborne viruses and provide sterile air.
In poverty, there is no room for error -- and no room for risk.
The main takeaway: eat less meat.
The redwood has the 2nd largest genome in the world.
A lot of mental health stigma can be traced to misunderstandings surrounding mental health.
It's probably not what you think.
The model could solve mysteries about DNA and lead to novel medicines.
Air pollution kills 5.5 million people around the world yearly.
Malaria still kills thousands of children in Africa each year -- but a vaccine might change all that.
Are you sitting down for this?
The device sends a mild electric shock to the patient's brain that quiets the mind.
You don't necessarily have to break a sweat to reap the benefits of exercising.
Another study supports plant-based diets.
When one sense fails, the others take over.
A rare genetic disorder that deactivates the immune system of baby boys may have been cured.
Bacon is not so good for you after all.
Say what now?
The moral of the story, kids, is get vaccinated.
You want Jurassic Park? Because this is how you get Jurassic Park.
As if dogs weren't precious enough, they also help with our fitness -- new research shows that dog owners are 400% more likely to meet recommended physical activity guidelines.
Researchers are trying to map the pollution impact of all the foods we eat.
The powerful CRISPR is set to revolutionize medicine.
"The increase in despair that occurs across the 30s is generalized to the entire cohort, regardless of race, ethnicity, education, and geography," the authors write.
Yes, scientists 3D-printed a heart.
Let's just say that famous Habsburg jaw isn't ruled out.
The secret to success is to take a short break, often.
Nicotine cravings are hard to resist, but inhaling certain smells might help reduce the temptation to light up.
It's probably not what you want to hear -- but it's what needs to be done.
Is this mutiny?!
Ketamine works its magic in a two-step process that first starts with the repair of brain circuits damaged by depression.
The median age of children was 13.
E-cigarettes are much less harmful than smoking tobacco. But that doesn't make them harmless.
The stimulation syncs brain regions in order to prevent memory disintegration.
It's the study all teenagers have been dreaming to see.
Red meat is particularly bad for our health, research suggests.
We're at the peak of allergy season.
