What does it mean to be alive? How could life adapt to places beyond Earth? Could intelligence and consciousness exist in ...

Applying insights from animal experiments to our understanding of humans requires knowing how gene functions correspond across species. DNA sequence similarity alone, however, does not always reveal ...

Keeping to warm climates throughout their 250-million-year history may have helped crocodiles and their relatives survive the ...

Humans and vertebrates go through various stages of sleep, including REM (rapid eye movement) sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and muscle twitches. Can a similar sleep state be observed in ...

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have made an important breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells can evade the cell ...

New fossil evidence reveals the first fully marine amphibian, Gerrothorax maritimus, which dates to the Late Triassic period nearly 237 million years ago. The animal had a flattened body that was ...

MADRID, OCTOBER 25, 2026 — Patients with previously treated advanced KRAS G12C-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) lived significantly longer and saw improved disease control when treated with ...

Common ways of reporting perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—the man-made, so-called forever chemicals that pose environmental and health threats—could underestimate the concentration ...

Tiny underwater algae sway gently in the current. All of a sudden, a light shines on them and they form robotic-like arms that start to pick up small rocks and put them in floating baskets. Sounds ...

In a Journal of Internal Medicine study, people who drank tea had a lower risk of vascular disease than non–tea drinkers. Among 485,934 adults in China followed for a median of 9.05 years, there were ...

The identity of a mysterious skeleton found in a Roman sarcophagus in the grounds of Westminster Abbey more than 150 years ago appears closer to being solved. When the limestone sarcophagus was ...

Schematic of the experimental in-duct UVGI system showing the airflow duct, cooling section, test section, lamp-array region, multiple downstream irradiance-measurement planes, measurement ...