Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work.

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

While the dangers of secondhand smoke are widely recognized, a new study in Building and Environment reveals a more persistent and stealthier hazard hiding in our indoor spaces: ...

Monkeys seem like they would be great companions and even helpers, but they have a number of traits that make them terrible ...

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study suggests ...

One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet ...

When Americans begin taking appetite-suppressing drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, the changes extend well beyond the bathroom ...

Pipettes? Check. Centrifuges? Check. Microplates? Check. Gloves? Check. Salmon sperm DNA? Check. Wait what? There are a ...

When you take a drug, where in your body does it actually go? For most medications, scientists can make only educated guesses ...

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life ...