Between midlife and older age, brain cells undergo unexpected shifts in inflammation and gene regulation. The findings ...

Researchers also found that face-related neural signals became increasingly specialized with age in neurotypical children, while autistic children showed little comparable refinement. This altered ...

A sip of sparkling water briefly makes the mouth more acidic, but not nearly as much as sugar-sweetened soda, according to a ...

The Mithaka people have a rich archaeological record that highlights the deep importance of plants in everyday life. Our ...

Periods of sustained warming can last for weeks to months at a time, with a distinct marine heatwave embedded between them ...

One of the large, 1.4-million-year-old footprints that the team excavated. A 6-inch (~15 cm) ruler is shown for scale. Credit ...

For decades, scientists have debated whether the early Solar System endured one sudden, catastrophic wave of asteroid strikes ...

NASA ’s Curiosity rover has encountered an enormous field of honeycomb-shaped fractures while climbing through a Martian ...

A Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf could become the first confirmed moon beyond our Solar System.

A single photon carrying quantum information had to travel more than 24 kilometers through an optical fiber already crowded ...

“We demonstrated a so-called universal gate set—meaning that if you store information in these emergent versions of quarks, and you move them around, you can do any quantum computation you might want ...

Collisions between oxygen and neon nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider are revealing signs of quark–gluon plasma, the ...