How can we live longer, healthier lives? Some wild and high-tech interventions have made their way into the news, including therapeutic plasma exchange, whole-body screening MRI, the use of artificial ...

In the storage rooms of a museum in western Turkey, an archaeologist noticed an unexpected residue inside a small Roman glass vessel. Dark-brown flakes still clung to the interior. Researchers have ...

With X-ray imaging at SLAC's synchrotron, scientists uncovered a 6th century translation of a book by the Greek-Roman doctor Galen. The words had been scraped off the parchment manuscript and written ...