Almost 500,000 Americans die each year from cardiac arrest, when the heart suddenly stops beating.

Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States and colonoscopy is the most-used screening tool to detect it. 

Rice University’s solar-powered approach for purifying salt water with sunlight and nanoparticles is even more efficient than its creators first believed.

Kyle Davis is an environmental data scientist whose research seeks to increase food supplies in developing countries.

A child’s risk of developing asthma is the smaller the more the microbiota of the child’s home resembles that of a farm house. 

It’s a feat three decades in the making: Harvard University chemists have achieved what a new paper calls a “landmark in drug discovery” with the total synthesis of halichondrin. 

A hair-sized probe that can measure key indicators of tissue damage deep in the lung has been developed by scientists.

New research may explain why an antioxidant that protects the brain is also associated with deterioration in areas susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease.

Mainstream strategies generally address the challenge of reducing carbon by reviewing consumption, but a complementary approach looks at how people spend their time.

New University of Alberta research is paving the way for the first medical treatment to help protect people from cardiovascular disease by boosting the body’s natural defences.