CHICAGO, Aug. 24, 2026 — Plastic might be the last ingredient you would ever add to a cookie recipe. But a team of researchers is looking to change that. They’ve programmed yeasts to turn plastic and ...

Elise Lauterbur is an assistant professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Vermont and co-lead author of the study. Bats are anomalies in the mammalian world—they fly, have long lifespans, ...

A peer-reviewed narrative review in Brain Medicine, led by Dr. Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal, integrates anthropology, history, and phylogenomics to argue that timing and regularity, more than ...

The adult human brain has limited capacity to repair or regenerate neurons lost to Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia. Existing treatments can slow disease progression but do not ...

What did ordinary people really eat in premodern Japan, beyond the dishes described in cookbooks and the bones discarded at urban waste pits? Reconstructing past diets at the level of individual food ...

Researchers have discovered a new genus and species of underground earthworm eel living beneath the Indo-Gangetic Plain in Bihar, northern India. The small, colourless creature, named Gangaichthys ...

During both world wars, fierce naval battles took place in the North Sea, and many ships sank. The wrecks remain there today, leaking toxic chemicals that local flora and fauna absorb, new research ...

The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology is a national leader in advancing cancer research, uniting more than 26,000 cancer specialists at 112 main institutions and 1,400 affiliates across the U.S ...

A screenshot from PlaySmart, a video game for teenagers that Dartmouth researchers developed to raise awareness of mental health and substance abuse. A clinical trial of 532 high school students aged ...

Wearable sensors coupled with AI can generate blood pressure readings nearly as well as the invasive and risky arterial lines relied on in intensive care units and operating rooms, new work by Johns ...

Of more than 500 occupations in the United States, flight attendants and pilots have the highest and second-highest proportion of radiation-related cancer deaths, a new study has found. The results ...

Older adults who typically had longer intervals between meals accumulated chronic diseases more rapidly over time than those with shorter intervals, according to a study from Karolinska Institutet ...