Review of decades of research highlights how the cellular recycling process known as autophagy is essential for healthy egg ...

Researchers constructed a labyrinth at Adelaide University. It's not big; rather, it's made to fit under a microscope, with ...

By examining genetic clues that linger in adult cells, scientists have now gained surprising insights into the developmental ...

Floating in near-weightless conditions can be disorienting for even the most experienced astronauts. Male reproductive ...

Humans living in space for months, years, or even generations will need to navigate sex in a zero-gravity world.

While some other creatures, most notably salamanders and starfish, can regenerate entire limbs, mammals don’t have this ...

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The abundance of viral DNA was measured in DNA sequenced from blood and saliva samples in biobanks, revealing strong ...

Over one billion people worldwide are over 60, and the population is projected to more than double by 2050. But as more people live into their 60s, 70s, and 80s, health care systems across the globe ...

Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been occupying these caves in the Balkans at a time when other ...

As humans burn fossil fuels and pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we are heating up the planet. But there is another alarming impact of this climate pollution: it may be changing the chemistry ...

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas. Juan-Luis ...