Deaths of despair were climbing before opioids, and the decline of churchgoing may have helped set the stage. A new study…

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s essential elements…

A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly developed…

Colorectal cancer breaks the usual immune rules, with certain regulatory T cells linked to improved survival. In many solid tumors, having…

Scientists have identified a pathway that keeps aging immune cells stuck in an inflammatory mode, intensifying the body’s response to severe…

Drugs used for diabetes and weight loss may also dampen alcohol’s effects by slowing how fast it enters the bloodstream. Early…

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing. Researchers report that the…

Repeated, rapid drainages from a meltwater lake on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier are exposing how warming-driven fractures and hidden channels may be…