Deaths of despair were climbing before opioids, and the decline of churchgoing may have helped…
New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how…
A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for…
Colorectal cancer breaks the usual immune rules, with certain regulatory T cells linked to improved…
Scientists have identified a pathway that keeps aging immune cells stuck in an inflammatory mode,…
Drugs used for diabetes and weight loss may also dampen alcohol’s effects by slowing how…
Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long…
Repeated, rapid drainages from a meltwater lake on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier are exposing how warming-driven…
Scientists have discovered that wildfires emit far more air-polluting gases than earlier estimates suggested. These…
A new study explains how pancreatic tumors use a sugar coating to hide from the…
New research reveals previously unknown ways opioid receptors can function, opening the door to safer…
Scientists have uncovered how some statins may cause muscle pain by disrupting calcium balance in…
A decades-old mix-up in a museum collection led scientists to mistakenly identify a Peruvian poison…
Inflammation covertly rewires the bone marrow, enabling mutated stem cells to rise and setting the…
Scientists have turned brain cells into tiny light sources, revealing the brain at work like…
Scientists have uncovered evidence that a newly identified niobium-rich deposit in central Australia formed during…
An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat…
A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures…