University of Utah researchers analyzed samples of Salt Lake residents’ hair going back a century to document a 100-fold ...

Babies as young as two months old are able to categorise distinct objects in their brains – much earlier than previously ...

An international team has described Foskeia pelendonum, a tiny Early Cretaceous ornithopod from Vegagete (Burgos, Spain), ...

Shown is the paradigm used to monitor different behaviors in young and aged rats. The violin plot (bottom) displays ...

Pregnant rhesus monkeys either drank moderate amounts of alcohol, experienced mild stress, or both. In adult ...

Physical aggression by adolescents against their parents is more common than many might believe, according to a longitudinal study from Zurich. Among young people aged 11 to 24, aggressive episodes of ...

A prevention strategy developed by Canadian researchers can reduce the risk of the most common and deadly form of ovarian cancer by nearly 80 per cent. The strategy, known as opportunistic ...

Scientists have created a complete map showing how hundreds of possible mutations in a key cancer gene influence tumour growth.

PHILADELPHIA—Pink noise—often used to promote sleep—may reduce restorative REM sleep and interfere with sleep recovery. In contrast, earplugs were found to be significantly more effective in ...

Kris Burkewitz, assistant professor of cell and developmental biology at Vanderbilt University, describes a new way by which cells adapt to the aging process: by actively remodeling the endoplasmic ...

An international team of scientists has unlocked a formula that enables vines to search for and attach to host plants—rapid ...

MIT researchers created a model that suggests promising ways to synthesize new materials for faster experimentation.