GLP-1 drugs, originally developed for diabetes and obesity, may also curb addictive behaviors by acting on reward circuits in ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial ...

New research shows that hippos lived in central Europe tens of thousands of years longer than previously thought. Ancient DNA ...

Researchers have uncovered microbial evidence in the remains of Napoleon’s soldiers from the 1812 Russian retreat. Genetic ...

Scientists have uncovered that glaciers can temporarily cool the air around them, delaying some effects of global warming.

Inside your body, an intricate communication network constantly monitors breathing, heart rate, digestion, and immune ...

Japanese researchers discovered that hair graying and melanoma share a surprising cellular origin. When DNA damage strikes ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons ...

A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star’s disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device ...

Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter.

Reptiles don’t just pee, they crystallize their waste. Researchers found that snakes and other reptiles form tiny uric acid ...