Engineers are turning to a chemistry that ancient Romans perfected two millennia ago to build thermal batteries capable of storing cheap, abundant heat for industrial use. By exploiting the reversible ...

The findings, published in Nature Communications, suggest a new way to tackle obesity that focuses on increasing how much energy the body burns instead of reducing appetite ...

LOS ANGELES -- The results from a recent USC study show that people in a certain age group could age up to an entire year faster living in neighborhoods that have more days of extreme heat. And we're ...

The world has changed since 1664, when French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes first claimed the brain was responsible for the sensation of pain. However, a key question remains: How exactly ...