From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

A licensed attorney with nearly a decade of experience in content production, Valerie Catalano knows how to help readers digest complicated information about the law in an approachable way. Her ...

A new wave of fitness programs claim to be specifically tailored for midlife. Here’s what to know about them. By Liz Baker Plosser Liz Birenbaum, 60, had spent most of her adult life dreading strength ...

Thyroid function tests are blood tests that measure hormone levels to check how well your thyroid is working. The most common tests are thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and thyroxine (T4), which help ...

Did you know that nearly 90% of a child’s brain is developed by the time they turn 6? Yet children from low-income families hear roughly 30 million fewer words by age 3 and can enter school more than ...

Your liver handles metabolic, detoxification, and immune functions, including processing nutrients, making bile for fat digestion, producing blood-clotting proteins, and removing toxins like ammonia ...

As droughts in the United States become more frequent and longer-lasting, new assessment tools are needed. A new National Academies report examines how the field of drought assessment can better ...

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Physical therapy (PT) is care that aims to ease pain and help you function, move, and live better. Your doctor might suggest this type of treatment if you’ve had an injury or illness that makes it ...

Objective To evaluate systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on the effects of exercise on general cognition, memory and executive function across all populations and ages. Methods ...