Researchers have been exploring different ways to improve memory, from mental training exercises to nutritional changes. A new study by University of California, Irvine (UCI) researchers found a ...

In this idea, life’s first steps may have happened inside sticky gels attached to surfaces, similar in some ways to modern microbial biofilms. Biofilms are the thin layers of bacteria you see on rocks ...

Acne vulgaris is a common skin condition caused by multiple factors, including the growth of Propionibacterium acnes and ongoing inflammation. Treating it is difficult because current options, like ...

Ecosystem reconstruction of the Late Jurassic Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry around 150 million years ago in Colorado, the United States. The landscape is dominated by gymnosperm plants such as conifers and ...

Most of us think about weight in terms of clothes, mirrors, or maybe blood sugar and cholesterol. But very few of us connect it to the brain. That might need to change. A new international study led ...

SAR11 bacteria comprise some 40% of marine bacterial cells, making them an essential part of our ocean ecosystems. (Image source: Smithsonian / Xiaowei Zhao.) For decades, SAR11 bacteria, tiny ocean ...

Scientists have developed a new way to boost the performance of perovskite solar cells by precisely controlling the formation of two-dimensional (2D) perovskite phases at critical interfaces.

The superconducting gap sets the basic energy scale that allows electricity to flow without resistance in a superconductor. In high‑temperature cuprates, the paired electrons (Cooper pairs) are mostly ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows galaxy MoM-z14 as it appeared in the distant past, only 280 million years after the universe began in the big bang. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Rohan Naidu ...

For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body weight, the logic went, and the physics simply would not work. Tendons would snap. Bones would fail.

GreenDrill team members at Prudhoe Dome, a key ice cap part of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The project’s first study shows this ice cap was gone 7,000 years ago. Photo: Jason Briner/University at Buffalo ...

For decades, dermatologists have urged daily sunscreen use to shield skin from ultraviolet radiation, the leading preventable cause of skin cancer, the most common cancer in the United States. Yet ...