I n science, whether an anomaly is insignificant or the basis for a promising new field of study can boil down to the ...

An international research team, including scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), has achieved a ...

The growing popularity of electronic devices—from fitness trackers and laptops to smartphones—is driving demand for more ...

If you’re one of the roughly 1.6 million people who took a cruise in Alaska last year, chances are you sailed through the ...

Some clinical trials aren't designed to answer scientific questions. They're designed to market drugs. In our recently ...

I have spent the last 10 years of my life investigating psychedelics as novel treatments for mental health conditions. When ...

Scientists studied how space junk moved in orbit over a 36-year span, finding that increased solar activity caused it to fall ...

Here, we report that glycolysis controls astrocyte-synapse contact. In the Drosophila larval dopaminergic (DAergic) circuit, blocking astrocyte glycolysis stimulated perisynaptic ensheathment by ...

They didn’t get the message. They won’t bow down. About 2,600 years ago, King Nebuchadnezzar erected a 90-foot-tall image of ...

Scientists still have much left to learn about the creatures, even as hundreds of thousands of them wash ashore.

Something is happening in the sprawling fields of the American South that doesn’t quite add up on paper. Despite the fact ...

Ants do not need a foreman to raise a city. Working with little more than local cues, they excavate tunnels, pile up soil, ...