Normally, the immune system kicks off an inflammatory response to clean up damaged tissue and fight off infection. After that ...

Yogurt is made through a delicate partnership between milk and two types of bacteria. Researchers at the Technical University ...

In labs around the world, scientists have tinkered with this idea, crafting mirror versions of life’s essential molecules.

Participants consistently picked the wrong knot, believing the weakest knots were the strongest. And for many among the few ...

Researchers transmitted 127,500 GB every second — over the distance from Chicago to Dallas. In a lab in Japan, scientists ...

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

In a new study published this month in npj Aging, researchers report that psilocybin slowed down key aspects of the aging ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

The hominins who lived at Gantangqing lived a heavily plant-based subsistence lifestyle. They had access to meat, and also ...

In a new study, researchers have uncovered how exercise might help the immune system fight cancer: by changing the gut ...

Preventing mites requires frequent hive monitoring. Although timely detection is critical for treating hives, manual ...

To achieve this, the researchers carefully tuned the cooling rate. A fast “thermal quench”—dropping the temperature at around ...