For decades, aging has looked like a one-way street, a slow accumulation of damage written into our cells. Now a wave of ...

They are not quite alive, yet not convincingly dead, and they may soon be prescribed alongside, or even instead of, the pills in your medicine cabinet. These strange entities, from rod-shaped genetic ...

"Complex evolutionary interactions." Researchers discover surprising ally in fight to protect food supply: 'Stable and ...

Chronic inflammation may be quietly reshaping the colon and making it more vulnerable to early-onset colorectal cancer. Scientists found that colon tissue in younger patients was stiffer, even in ...

New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.

Archaeologists have spent decades debating how and when people first entered the Americas. The outlines are familiar, but the ...

Explore the NIH’s new policy ending federal funding for fetal tissue research from elective abortions and its ethical, ...

Researchers at DTU have patented a new invention that uses naturally produced substances from bifidobacteria in the gut to help lower the risk of allergies and asthma. Allergies and asthma are ...

How do cutting-edge science and technology respond to ethical and legal issues when incorporated into society? These issues ...

Professor Dame Pamela Shaw says nearly every MND patient she has seen is physically active – and is now trying to unravel why ...

The seeds, from the famed rose-growing region of Nanyang, were transported on the return capsule of the Lihong-1 Y1 suborbital vehicle, a commercial recoverable spacecraft designed for space tourism, ...

BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- In a novel fusion of spaceflight and agriculture, a batch of precious rose seeds from Henan Province in central China has returned from a journey to the edge of space, ...