New research uncovers that aging activates a new type of stem cell that rapidly produces fat cells, explaining why belly fat often expands in middle age.

That stubborn belly fat that appears in your 40s isn't just from diet or lack of exercise. Scientists have uncovered a ...

It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle-age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates aging and slows down metabolism, increasing our risk for developing ...

A protein identified nearly 40 years ago for its ability to stimulate the production of red blood cells plays a surprising, ...

Motherhood in my early thirties didn’t help and I’ve been mainly fat, or fat and fit, since then – being an unhealthy 15 stone (95kg) at my heaviest. But it was only when I wrote a book ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) – In 2018, former North Kingstown basketball coach Aaron Thomas told then-Superintendent Phil Auger that no students were naked inside his office for so-called fat tests.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date—a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.