Deep in the brainstem sits a small but important cluster of neurons known as the locus coeruleus (LC), Latin for “blue place.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of new porous materials made from carbon-based molecules ...

An international collaboration co-led by an IAS scholar has uncovered a universal rule governing one of the most powerful ...

Somewhere between the microscopic realm of elementary particles and the macroscopic world of human beings, something strange ...

Bryan Johnson has become the public face health optimization. His project, Blueprint, tracks an extraordinary range of health measures and has been widely reported to cost him millions of dollars a ye ...

Where and when did people build the first city?” sounds like a simple enough question. But archaeologists have been arguing ...

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers sometimes continue to carry their infants after they have died, a behaviour known as infant corpse carrying (ICC). It is widely documented, and many explanations have bee ...

On July 15, 1960, a kid from Coventry, Rhode Island, named Gerald Allen wrote “I Would Like To Donate My tooth to Science.” His adorable letter was an offer to send in a tooth for a project ...

Bipedalism, or walking on two legs, is one of the key features that distinguishes humans from other apes. But when and why ...

When picturing a scaled, toothy Tyrannosaurus rex stomping across North America, building nests and eating other dinosaurs, ...

Researchers at Maynooth University (MU) have developed a first-of-its-kind DNA computer, described as one of the most complex ...