Muscle mass increased or remained stable relative to body weight in middle-aged mice and humans on GLP-1 drugs.
The metric called ‘biological age’ takes a person’s health into consideration, and therefore can be higher or lower than their chronological age. The pace at which a person’s biological age changes ...
For people with eczema, stress can trigger flare ups and worsen their itchy rashes. But the link between stress and skin inflammation has been unclear. Now, researchers have identified a network of ...
Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of ...
UK government announces multibillion-pound science investments — but what impact will this have on the global race in these fields?
A well-fitted ‘disguise’ allows transplanted mitochondria to slip into cells whose own mitochondria are defective, scientists reported 18 March in Cell 1. Administration of these cloaked mitochondria ...
There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...
The powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR–Cas9 might offer a way to make safer, more effective cancer-fighting immune cells ...
Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and ...
It has long been known as the arbiter of reward in the brain, but recent findings could upend this classic theory of dopamine ...