We usually think of bodily sensations as information the brain receives. What if the way we attend to those sensations can feed back and change the biological response itself? Attention is already ...

A lost letter from the Pope could rewrite the story of 1066 – according to research from the University of East Anglia. Excerpts from the letter are now held in the Vatican archives and they suggest ...

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is a major modifiable driver of ASCVD, and PCSK9 has ...

Islands are widely recognized as natural laboratories of evolution. The ocean restricts movement among islands, allowing isolated populations to adapt to different environments and, at times, diverge ...

Researchers say a spike in temperatures during an ice age 304 million years ago could inform what climate scientists are ...

CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences AI-based “tissue clocks” can estimate the biological age of human organs from histological images, researchers at the ...

Scientists have been wondering who disperses the seeds of Balanophoraceae, a family of parasitic plants growing in the shaded and windless understories of Japanese tropical forests. In his newest ...

Like a delivery driver navigating crowded city streets, a gene-therapy-toting lipid nanoparticle faces a gauntlet of potential detours on its journey toward a cell’s nucleus. First, there’s entering ...

Most individuals encounter their health primarily through an annual health screening, which provides a limited snapshot of one’s health status. A new study by the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, ...

Dr. Steven Heymsfield and Dr. Adam Gilden’s Obesity journal editorial highlights emerging benefits and questions surrounding this rapidly expanding class of medications.

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University of Maryland scientists found that a matrix surrounding brain cells loosens and rebuilds during learning—and ...