A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

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Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. It has been a tough year for medicine. The U.S.

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

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Imagine a humanoid robot with not two, but six arms, as if it had dropped straight out of Indian mythology. This is the MIRO ...

A new study has proposed that Alzheimer’s disease can be successfully reversed instead of just being slowed down.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...