Researchers have identified special immune cells in the brain that help slow Alzheimer’s. These microglia work to reduce inflammation and block the spread of harmful proteins. They appear to protect ...

A scientist is fighting back against climate misinformation following the passage of One Big Beautiful Bill. Chris Gloninger (@meteorologistchris) shared a video on TikTok debunking anti-renewables ...

Beyond its shocking smell lies a fascinating lesson in food science and molecular interaction. In Guangzhou, cooks use durian’s natural sulfur compounds to deepen the umami of chicken broth. This dish ...

This case file was extra cold. Archaeologists are helping unravel a nearly 2,000-year-old teen “murder mystery” that they uncovered while filming a TV show on Britain’s past. “I turned the face at ...

Beatriz Ychussie’s career in mathematics seemed to be going really well. She worked at Roskilde University in Denmark where, in 2015 and 2016 alone, she published four papers on mathematical formulae ...

The former government health specialists urged Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “intercede” in EPA’s effort to weaken regulations that reduce mercury and arsenic. Two leading environmental ...

If you’ve ever stepped outside to find your newly planted flowerbeds dug up or your vegetable patch ravaged, you will know my pain. From curious foxes to marauding squirrels, the destruction wrought ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In the predawn hours of July 4, a small, blue house just outside Binghamton, New York, caught fire. James Sitek, chief of the West Colesville Fire Company, was ...

Fred Ramsdell was on vacation in the Wyoming wilderness when he and two colleagues received the honor for their breakthroughs in immunology. Ramsdell tells WIRED he was completely unaware that the ...

Researchers have designed a peptide that prevents the deadly misfolding of alpha-synuclein, the protein behind Parkinson’s and some dementias. In lab and animal tests, it stabilized the protein and ...

A Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital team found that “hot-wiring” the immune microenvironment in mouse tumors, by co-activating STING and LTβR, rapidly recruits T and B cells, builds in-tumor ...