This approach is called "cancer interception". The idea is simple: target the biological processes that cause cancer long ...

An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun's rays to illuminate was an ...

A new Spinosaurus species has been unearthed from the Saharan desert, and its skull bears a magnificent crest never seen before on this kind of dinosaur.

A few blobs of lab-grown brain tissue have demonstrated a striking proof of concept: living neural circuits can be nudged toward solving a classic control problem through carefully structured feedback ...

Some brain cells can resist the toxic processes associated with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

One of the strongest of these depressions – where the gravity field is weaker – lies under Antarctica. Now, new models of how the so-called Antarctic Geoid Low evolved over time have shown that it's ...

Scientists say they have drilled deeper than ever beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, peering back millions of years to reveal signs it was once, at least in part, open ocean.

Deer have the ability to see ultraviolet light, and a recent study shows they can also leave a glowing trail visible in those wavelengths, too.

Beall has been studying the human response to hypoxic living conditions for years. In research published in October 2024, she and her team revealed some of the specific adaptations in Tibetan ...

Tiny air pollution particles may be doing more than harming our lungs. A new study links long-term exposure to PM 2.5 to a ...

Not only can the drug metformin help to effectively manage type 2 diabetes, but it may also give older women a better chance ...

A new study identifies an extreme but effective way that brain immune cells can prevent the parasite Toxoplasma gondii from spreading: they kill themselves to eliminate the dangerous microbes they ...