In neurodegenerative blinding diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa, the eye’s primary light-capturing photoreceptors ...

The numbers paint a grim picture. Roughly half of all U.S. adults are lonely, according to a 2023 report, and nearly as many feel socially isolated. Though just as serious as other health risks, lonel ...

Arrange identical building blocks into a repeating, orderly structure. At the microscopic scale, though, even subtle biases in how particles interact ...

The more astronomers learn about the universe’s earliest galaxies, the stranger they seem. Many of their surprising properties may be explained by differences between their massive stars and tho ...

We imagine advanced alien civilizations building gigantic spaceships, Dyson spheres and empires spanning entire galaxies. But ...

Alcohol use among U.S. adults has fallen for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, though rates remain higher than pre-pandemic levels, according to a new Keck Medicine of USC study publis ...

Exposure to sugar in the first 1,000 days of a child's life increases the risk of developing anxiety in adulthood, according to a new study from the University of Surrey published in Translational Psy ...

Cambridge scientists have shown that girls and boys show differences in what they pay attention to, even at birth. Since these differences are present so early, it is possible they emerge due to prena ...

Using materials safe for human consumption, MIT researchers have created tiny batteries that could be used to power ingestible electronic devices. Such batteries could make the devices safer for patie ...

A recent op-ed published in RealClearScience called for ending the Universal Service Fund (USF), which supports connectivity ...

Around 631,000 years ago — a geological blink of an eye — catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic e ...

Way back at the dawn of aviation, during a public flight exhibition of all things, a gull jammed a plane’s controls, crashing ...