Smokers who want to quit are most likely to succeed when they use nicotine e-cigarettes, according to a new Cochrane review.…

Princeton’s PACMAN AI can control fusion plasma in milliseconds and predict dangerous instabilities before they start. In some fusion energy systems,…

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is back to studying the universe, even as the aging spacecraft continues to lose altitude and…

MIT researchers have engineered bacteria to behave like transistors, making it possible to build living “circuit boards” that can be printed…

A major trial found that implantable cardioverter-defibrillators may benefit some patients younger than 70 with mild-to-moderate heart dysfunction and cardiac scarring.…

Cluster headache causes extreme pain, but its origins remain unclear. New research links the disorder to genetics, inflammation, and tobacco smoke…

Depression in later life may be an early warning from the brain, appearing years before Alzheimer’s begins to affect memory and…

A new theoretical approach helps connect quantum physics with classical thermodynamics by clarifying what counts as heat and useful work in…