Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

A newly recognized set of T helper cells seems to guard against aging by eliminating harmful senescent cells. Their presence in supercentenarians suggests they may be a key to maintaining a healthier, ...

Dark matter may be invisible, but scientists are getting closer to understanding whether it follows the same rules as ...

Researchers found that tau proteins don’t jump straight into forming Alzheimer’s-associated fibrils—first they assemble into ...

Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA ...

Scientists found that people who use both cannabis and tobacco show a distinct brain pattern tied to mood and stress ...

Scientists discovered that a week of full submergence is enough to kill most rice plants, making flooding a far greater ...

Aalto University researchers have developed a method to execute AI tensor operations using just one pass of light. By ...

Scientists identified a small molecule that interrupts a harmful protein pair linked to diabetic inflammation and tissue ...

Chimps may revise their beliefs in surprisingly human-like ways. Experiments showed they switched choices when presented with stronger clues, demonstrating flexible reasoning. Computational modeling ...

Researchers uncovered how fatty molecules called ceramides trigger acute kidney injury by damaging the mitochondria that ...

By reactivating a long-lost gene, researchers were able to lower uric acid levels and stop damaging fat accumulation in human ...