The microbiome is a collection of trillions of bacteria that reside in and on our bodies.

People who increase their consumption of sugary beverages—whether they contain added or naturally occurring sugar—may face moderately higher risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Much less invasive than current dependence on examining cerebrospinal fluid.

In the story of Goldilocks, a little girl tastes three different bowls of porridge to find which is not too hot, not too cold, but just the right temperature. 

Climate change won’t just bring rising sea levels and more extreme weather — it could also impact your dinner plate.

Breathing dirty air can make you sick. But according to new research, it can also make you more aggressive.

In the battle against antibiotic resistance, many scientists have been trying to deploy naturally occurring viruses called bacteriophages that can infect and kill bacteria.

We make food decisions several times a day – from what time we eat to how much – but a new University of Otago study has found we are not very good at judging the energy-density of what we consume.

A decades-long decline in the breast cancer death rate continues, but has begun to slow in recent years, while breast cancer incidence rates continue to inch up. 

For generations, people have used chlorine bleach to clean and disinfect their homes.