Most astronauts who menstruate pause their cycle with hormones before hitting the stars, but in the future, we'll need more ...

Scientists sent hurricane-level floods into a Maryland forest to find out what extreme weather and sea-level rise mean for ...

Axiom Math founder Carina Hong wooed top Meta researchers in a competitive AI talent market.

“Frankenstein” director Guillermo del Toro first read the novel when he was a child — and was left captivated by the ...

Kyoto researchers found that, given two weeks at room temperature, a familiar snack can nudge water into natural fermentation ...

A new study looks at how microscopic plants have been used as evidence in forensic investigations. Tiny plants such as moss are easy to miss. Many are no larger than an eyelash, and they usually grow ...

In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the United States, aided by allies of President Trump who sought to promote her ...

The covid-19 pandemic opened the door to once-controversial human challenge trials. Now, volunteers are willingly catching ...

Scientists have identified three key molecules that decide how long a memory lasts. Two of them, CAMTA1 and TCF4, work in the ...

By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network ...

Ant colonies act as one "super-organism" which works to ensure the survival of all, according to a team of scientists.