Among U.S. adults with no personal or family history of heart attack or stroke, over 1 in 4 people age 60 and up report regulary taking low-dose aspirin to reduce their risk of heart attack or stroke.

Among people with no personal or family history of stroke or heart attack, younger adults (18-39) are more aware that for most adults, the risks of taking a daily low-dose aspirin outweigh the ...

A researcher holds one of Caltech's printed, wearable sweat sensors based on the core–shell nanoparticle technology developed in Wei Gao's lab.

Using the newly developed method, researchers extracted crevasses from digital elevation models of the ice sheet surface. The maps show how crevasse changed between 2016 and 2021 over glaciers at the ...

Salivary organic matter has been shown to reduce ozonated water’s effect in inactivating the virus responsible for COVID-19.

It’s a little pill with big responsibilities. But despite its primary role to prevent pregnancy, the contraceptive pill (or ‘the Pill’) could also help reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, according to ...

A new European Wetland Map shows Europe's peatlands, floodplains and coastal wetlands more comprehensively than ever before ...

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago launched a newborn screening awareness campaign, with signage on public transit and billboards across Chicago urging parents to contact their child ...

The development of innovative robots and AI solutions will make it possible to automatically record sewer pipe conditions, ...

To test whether humans still use auricular muscles — which once helped move our primate ancestors’ ears to funnel sound — scientists attached electrodes to the sides of people’s heads, and asked them ...

For the first time, DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver.  Based on DNA ...

A new study from the University of Chicago Medicine reveals that people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and depression experience high levels of stimulation and pleasure when intoxicated, similar to ...