New U.S. dietary guidelines promote eating full-fat foods and meats. But experts say nuts and seed oils are better sources of ...

The tool helps scientists understand how single-letter mutations and distant DNA regions influence gene activity, shaping ...

Specialized whale-bone harpoons from southern Brazil dating back 5,000 years suggest that Indigenous groups in the area were ...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

In mice, blocking heart-to-brain signals improved healing after a heart attack, hinting at new targets for cardiac therapy.

These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a glimpse at the technical know-how of our early ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Scientists have described a novel, yet benign bone-covered growth's characteristics for doctors, so patients don't receive ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...