Between roughly 2.5 and 2 billion years ago, Earth underwent the greatest chemical transformation known from its surface history as oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere. That shift ultimately helped ...

An isotope analysis of 11,000-year-old cereals from the southern Levant challenges a long-standing clue used to identify early crop domestication. Credit: Shutterstock. A new inte ...

“Most of the unanticipated side effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists have been positive,” the authors wrote. Heymsfield and Gilden point to evidence that GLP-1 medications may reduce inflammation and ...

A common gut-derived molecule may influence processes linked to dementia. Researchers found that its levels tracked with several signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Credit: Stock Gut bacteria produce a ...

Researchers used light to reveal the collective motion of electrons forming a Wigner crystal. Credit: Enrique Sahagún, Scixel / University of Basel, Department of Physics Optical measurements can ...

This artist’s concept shows one of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft entering interstellar space, or the space between stars. This ...

Deep inside atomic nuclei, gluons bind quarks together and help determine the structure of visible matter. A CERN study, with a University of Kansas physicist playing a leading role, has now shown ...

The number of recorded autism diagnoses has risen enormously. During the 1960s, about 4 in every 10,000 children in the ...

Large-scale tidal observations challenge the textbook idea that two symmetric water bulges physically form on opposite sides ...

When the results were projected across the civilization’s entire range, the researchers produced a cautious estimate of more ...

Using two mechanisms to attack cancer at once is not entirely new. Antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), an expanding class of ...

This artist’s concept portrays the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* ...