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Red-light therapy devices are showing up in dermatology offices, locker rooms, and homes, propelled by a market projected to top $1 billion by 2030. Most of the consumer hype is noise. But a growing stack of clinical evidence is catching up to the ...

In 2005, a husband-and-wife team at Japan's RIKEN institute ran an experiment with a mouse: clone it, then clone the clone, then clone that clone, and keep going. Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama and Dr. Sayaka Wakayama kept it up for 20 years -- through lab ...

The emperor cichlid, also known as the giant cichlid, can grow to up three feet long and is found only in Lake Tanganyika in Africa. It is also the first fish that appears to be know when it or its young are being stared at and responds aggressively ...

When people say "autism spectrum," most picture a straight line -- "a little autistic" on one end, "very autistic" on the other. A new graphic in Yahoo Health replaces that line with something closer to a spider web. The graphic is based on the ...

Current schizophrenia drugs can quiet hallucinations and delusions, but the cognitive symptoms (disorganized thinking, memory problems, executive dysfunction) stay untreated. Those are the ones that make everyday life brutal for roughly two million ...

A king can't sleep, so he demands extra stories from his exhausted storyteller. The storyteller obliges with a tale about a farmer who has just bought 2,000 sheep and needs to ferry them across a flood-swollen river in a tiny boat that fits two at a ...