A 20-year study of 400,000 students found that children who attended public school pre-K earned better grades and test scores through high school than those in other childcare settings. Better-trained ...

A popular vanilla flavoring in e-cigarettes may interfere with some of the earliest steps of human development. In lab ...

Every one of 212 plant-based meat alternatives and drinks tested in the UK contained at least one naturally occurring fungal ...

Scientists tracking thousands of animals found that our physical presence can reshape where wildlife moves and lives, ...

More than 1,000 volunteers buried cotton underwear across Switzerland to help scientists measure how active different soils are. The faster the fabric disappeared, the more biological activity was ...

Ultra-processed foods make up a huge share of the American diet, and new research suggests they may carry another serious ...

Britain’s postwar sugar rationing created a rare natural experiment that let researchers examine how early sugar exposure ...

Beneath the rocky slopes of Mount Timpanogos lies far more ice than anyone walking across the surface might suspect.

Moderate calorie restriction lowered an immune protein called C3 that appears to help drive chronic inflammation as the body ...

DNA from a nearly 190-year-old museum specimen has helped scientists confirm a distinct Himalayan pangolin species hiding in ...

Ancient teeth and human DNA are revealing a surprising history of insect eating. Modern humans in northern Eurasia appear to ...

People who reach 110 and beyond appear to have unusually large numbers of rare immune cells capable of killing abnormal cells ...