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I thought I was doing everything right. I live in a sunny climate most of the year. I eat a fairly balanced diet. I work in nutrition and spend a good part of my life reading research and helping ...

A massive scientific initiative to decode how aging reshapes the human body reached a major milestone this month. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet) published ...

Albert Einstein postulated in his 1905 theory of special relativity that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant. Ever since, that’s been one of the fundamental assumptions of physics. Now Enbang ...

The mission of the National Institutes of Health is "to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen ...

Around 13,000 years ago, as the world was emerging from the grip of the last ice age, much of the North Atlantic region plunged back into near-glacial conditions. Sea ice expanded ...

In 1962, Michael Polanyi published “The Republic of Science” in Minerva and described a post-war vision of the scientific community as a self-governing polity: researchers pursued knowledge ...

On my second visit with Nancy Wexler at her Manhattan apartment, she had a gift for me. It was a copy of her newly published memoir, “My Life, My Science: Pursuing a Cure for Huntington’s Disease.” It ...

Around 13,000 years ago, as the world was emerging from the grip of the last ice age, much of the North Atlantic region plunged back into near-glacial conditions. Sea ice expanded across the North ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is generally associated with animals. But a new study by researchers from the University of Calgary and international collaborators explored the potential for CWD to spre ...

Stars shine because atoms fuse in their interiors, releasing energy. When a very massive star has exhausted its nuclear fuel, ...