Paul McClure

An app will accurately detect if your milk has gone bad using an off-the-shelf smartphone’s built-in vibration motor – and you don’t need to open the carton. According to the researchers behind the tech, it could help prevent sickness and liters of the white stuff being poured down the drain.

Not only have researchers identified how a common cellular protein affects aging, but they’ve tweaked the genes that produce it in fruit flies, extending healthy lifespan by 25% to 30%. The discovery opens the door to healthier aging in humans.

Combining virtual reality and non-invasive deep-brain electrical stimulation, researchers have improved healthy individuals' spatial memory – the kind that helps you remember where you left the car keys.

Using social media platforms for long periods has little to no association with mental health indicators like depression, anxiety and stress, according to new research. However, another recently published study found that men risk developing unhealthy obsessions with physique if they place too much…

New research has linked higher plasma levels of the healthy fats omega-3 and omega-6 to a reduced risk of developing particular types of cancer.

We naturally pick up microorganisms as we move about the world. Now, researchers have developed an AI tool that accurately links you to a particular

Researchers have developed a non-addictive painkiller that remains inactive until it reaches sites of chronic pain.

Memories can form outside of the brain, according to new research. Non-brain cells exposed to chemical pulses similar to the ones that brain cells

Manipulating important non-neuronal brain cells called astrocytes using light prevented fear memories from being retained long-term, according to new research.

The unassuming yet popular white button mushroom has cancer-fighting abilities, according to the results of a human clinical trial on the use of food as medicine.