A surprising clinical trial suggests that taking vitamin C daily could improve survival in people with precancerous blood disorders and early-stage blood cancers. Patients receiving the supplement had fewer adverse events and showed a promising survival advantage, raising hopes that a common vitamin could help protect against leukemia-related complications.

Vitamin C plays an important role in keeping the immune system healthy, helping wounds heal, and protecting cells from damage...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore’s College of Design and Engineering (CDE) have developed a fiber that functions as pixels and senses touch at the same time, integrating 54 of them into a sleeve to create the world’s first touchscreen built into a garment.

The sleeve displays images and video, responds to finger presses and connects wirelessly to other devices, yet stays as washable, breathable and flexible as ordinary clothing...

Scientists doubling as art detectives have traced Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” to a celestial scene that suggests a new date for one of the world’s most famous paintings.

Their findings indicate that rather than being a product of van Gogh’s imagination, “The...

Squishy, wrinkled, weighing about as much as a cantaloupe, the brain may not be much to look at from the outside. Yet with a network of roughly 86 billion neurons, it generates more impulses daily than all the smartphones on the planet combined.

Scientists can track all that activity with scans. But what does a well-balanced brain actually look like?

Spoiler alert: New research says there’s no universal signature of mental health—or illness.

The limits of a universal biomarker
“A lot of the work in neuroscience is trying to identify some kind of universal biomarker,” said Northeastern University London researcher Haily Merritt...