Scientists have known for about five years that mutations in the gene TREM2 increase a…
Mechanical engineers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and four…
Sepsis, or blood poisoning, occurs when the body’s response to infection damages its own tissues…
Astronomers have discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big…
MIT engineers have developed a new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs…
Next year marks the 20th anniversary of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory launch into space. The…
Craters can tell scientists a lot about the surfaces of planets, moons, and other bodies.…
Though once big enough to swallow three Earths with room to spare, Jupiter’s Great Red…
A neural circuit mechanism involved in preserving the specificity of memories has been identified by…
If you’re a rock climber, hiker, runner, dancer, or anyone who likes recording themselves while…
As dinosaurs and huge ocean predators disappeared 66 million years ago in a mass extinction…
The transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Europe is marked by two…
Nutrient-rich ash from an enormous flare-up of volcanic eruptions toward the end of the dinosaurs’…
Using Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) mounted on the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified nearly 200 “protoclusters,”…
Astronomers have put NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on an Indiana Jones-type quest to uncover an…
The gastric bacterium H. pylori colonizes the stomachs of around half the human population and…
Viruses are intracellular parasites that cause disease by infecting the cells in the body and,…
Flows of molten metal can generate magnetic fields. This so-called dynamo effect creates cosmic magnetic…