Women living in parts of the United States with lower air quality, especially neighborhoods with heavy emissions from motor vehicles, are more likely to develop breast cancer, according to a multiyear analysis involving more than 400,000 women and 28,000 breast cancer cases.

UC San Diego researchers have settled a decades-long debate surrounding the role of the first Crohn’s disease gene to be associated with a heightened risk for developing the auto-immune condition.

Researchers mapped greenhouse gas emissions associated with producing meat for cities across contiguous US, providing clearer picture of its environmental impact and ways it can be reduced.

Scientists have long known that the Alzheimer’s brain often features abnormal plaques and tangles, and recent studies have highlighted the role that the brain’s vascular system plays in disease progression.

Iceland, one of the last places on Earth to be free of mosquitoes, recorded its first sighting this month. 

Dust from California’s drying Salton Sea doesn’t just smell bad. Scientists from UC Riverside found that breathing the dust can quickly re-shape the microscopic world inside the lungs.

A tiny fish with translucent skin could make a big difference in how we treat pediatric cancer — and the research is happening at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center.

A few miles north of Berlin, the Schönerlinde wastewater treatment plant hums with quiet urgency. Dark brown water flows through a series of concrete tanks, alive with microorganisms breaking down almost everything that’s flushed away in the northeastern parts of the nearby German capital.

In a discovery that could reshape how we think about memory, researchers at Flinders University have found that forgetting is not just a glitch in the brain but is actually a finely tuned process, and dopamine is the key.

Phase 2 trial found adding Bevacizumab to different chemotherapy drugs led to more patients’ tumours shrinking, which has helped to change routine UK treatment.