A new report, published today in Nature Metabolism, is shedding light on the distinct and underappreciated role of fructose ...

In a converted 2013 Toyota Sienna affixed with a hand-built telescopic weather device protruding from the roof, Penn State ...

In patients developing end-stage liver disease, the damage has become too severe for the liver’s normally extraordinary ...

Investigating a common gene in three very different species – salamanders, mice and zebrafish – scientists have discovered ...

On October 10th, 1957, a nuclear reactor fire broke out at Windscale in the UK becoming the first nuclear disaster to ...

The latest report from David Reich’s genetics lab at Harvard is that “Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection ...

Gregg Phillips, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Office of Response and Recovery, has raised eyebrows ...

It’s 3am. The room is dark, the house is silent, but your brain is suddenly wide awake. Many people find themselves waking at ...

Late Neanderthals are believed to have descended from a small group that survived extreme Ice Age conditions in southwestern ...

America’s most toxic lake may also be one of its most overlooked resources. At the Berkeley Pit Superfund Site, scientists ...

Fish living downstream of wastewater treatment plants are accumulating antidepressants, opioids and other drugs of abuse in their bodies, according to a new study. Using a new analytical method t ...

Is Earth’s core a solid or a liquid? Yes. The mysteries of our own planet’s interior have, in many ways, been harder to crack ...