An electron microscopy image shows the difference in a healthy kidney (right), with filtering cells called podocytes that have distinct, finger-like structures. In minimal change disease (left), these ...

Light pollution has been linked to cardiovascular disease. New study shows that people exposed to too much nighttime light go to develop changes in the shape and function of their hearts. Researchers ...

In the 1970s, psychiatric diagnoses were marked by considerable uncertainty and disagreement. Since then, organisations such as the American Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization ...

A team of Griffith University archaeologists has uncovered evidence that humans were using mind-altering substances much earlier in time than previously supposed. Led by Professor Adam Brumm from ...

A 3D image of the water-filled aluminum eggshell array metastructure shows the eggshell pattern on an aluminum plate. The second aluminum plate — which goes on top of the eggs — is excluded from the ...

Exposure to the stomach microbe Helicobacter pylori may be associated with more than 1 in 5 cases of bowel cancer worldwide, suggests an exploratory risk attribution study, published in the open ...

A young spotted hyena at Etosha National Park scopes Barker out. At the time, Barker was setting up a bait station to immobilize and collar the matriarch of the hyena clan. Image supplied by Dr Nancy ...

In this illustration, the chemical structure of LSD — represented by a rainbow — is being deconstructed into simplified analogues, which are portrayed as individual colors. University of California, ...

A shared biological secret that helps explain chronic exhaustion in conditions including long Covid and PTSD has been discovered by researchers at the University of East Anglia and Oxford BioDynamics.