I remember when I first looked up a patient on Google. It was my last day on the bone marrow transplant unit, back when I was an intern. As I stood before the patient, taking her history, she told m ...

Bessel van der Kolk sat cross—legged on an oversize pillow in the center of a smallish room overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. He wore khaki pants, a blue fleece zip-up and square wire-rimm ...

A study found that too much sitting down shortens telomeres, the protective caps which sit at the end of chromosomes. 别“坐以待毙”。科学家研究发现，虽然锻炼越多的人往往 ...

For the past few years, Mary Lou Guerinot has been keeping watch over experimental fields in southeast Texas, monitoring rice plants as they suck metals and other troublesome elements from the soil. ...

Like everyone else, I am losing the attention war. I toggle over to my emails when I should be working. I text when I should be paying attention to the people in front of me. I spend hours looking a ...

Pilates vs. Yoga 健康问答：普拉提还是瑜伽？ Question: 问： Is Pilates better than yoga for strengthening exercises? 在力量练习方面，普拉提是否比瑜伽更好 ...

Two teams of scientists published studies on Sunday showing that blood from young mice reverses aging in old mice, rejuvenating their muscles and brains. As ghoulish as the research may sound, exper ...

Say what you will about the Chinese, but they know how to make wholesale changes, and sometimes those changes are inarguably for the good. As noted in an editorial in The Lancet last week, the life ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — AROUND the world, honeybee colonies are dying in huge numbers: About one-third of hives collapse each year, a pattern going back a decade. For bees and the plants the ...

If an exercise wheel sits in a forest, will mice run on it? 如果把跑轮放在森林里，小鼠会上去跑步吗？ Every once in a while, science asks a simple question and gets a straight ...