Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann developed optogenetics, which uses light and genetics to control individual ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is expanding its space footprint with plans to launch a probe to the further reaches of the ...

Movement and creativity go hand in hand. Scientists are working to discover why Luke Borsten, age 38, has been backpacking and making music since childhood. Today the Portland, Ore.–based filmmaker ...

Known as “poop maxxing,” or more politely, “fiber maxxing,” there is a swell of enthusiasm for high-fiber foods, regular ...

As far as fairytales go, dwarfs can be Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy or Dopey. But in space, dwarfs might be better called Hungry, ...

Amanda Loudin is a freelance writer whose work has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic and elsewhere.

Attachment is the term psychologists use for the most significant relationships that hold people’s lives together ...

The ancient pre- Roman society of Etruria in central Italy, for example, embedded sound throughout its culture, using ritual ...

The experimental weight-loss drug is a triple agonist and the first of its kind to reach a phase 3 clinical trial ...

Today Project Suncatcher is sending four AI processors into orbit on a SpaceX rocket to see whether the building blocks of a ...

In the movie, a giant iceberg from Greenland floats into the sea, imperiling millions—but is that even possible?

The annexed engravings are views of a loom invented by John Gledhill, of this city, for weaving haircloth by power, an invention which is as valuable for the weaving of hair cloth as the power loom ...