When a wildfire tears through a landscape, most life retreats or disappears. Plants burn. Animals flee. The soil itself is ...

They are the most common living things on our planet, thriving even in waters with very little food and playing a big role in ...

It usually starts with good intentions. You plan the workout. You even feel motivated. The clothes are ready. The time is ...

If you imagine the earliest animals on Earth, you might picture something simple but sturdy. Maybe a sponge-like creature ...

This novel food web is the first study of its kind to use trophic analysis to examine Morrison Formation ecological interactions.

Most of us don't struggle to feel love. We struggle to explain it. You can sit across from someone you care about deeply, look into their eyes, and feel ...

Most of us think about weight in terms of clothes, mirrors, or maybe blood sugar and cholesterol. But very few of us connect ...

A new study from Iran provides clear scientific evidence for that feeling. It shows that social isolation, loneliness, and repetitive negative thinking work together to make emotional distress much ...

DNA, though tightly packed in the nucleus, is constantly threatened by damage from metabolism and external stressors. One particularly severe form of DNA damage is the so-called DNA–protein crosslinks ...

In simple terms, stem cells that don’t build up enough of the NDRG1 protein eventually die off. What remains is a group of cells that repair muscle more slowly but are tougher and more resilient, able ...

The Webb telescope promises to push the boundaries of the observable universe, inching ever closer to the cosmic dawn. This ...

Scientists at CERN, together with MIT physicists, have found strong evidence that the universe’s first “primordial soup” acted like a liquid. They discovered that when quarks zoom through this plasma, ...