Aging is the primary risk factor for cancer, dementia, and cardiovascular diseases. As the understanding of the biology of ...

Even without noses, octopuses are able to determine which food sources are good to eat and which have gone past their prime ...

Ageing is the primary risk factor for cancer, dementia, and cardiovascular diseases. As the understanding of the biology of ageing constantly ...

A large government study published Thursday shows more definitively than ever before that Americans’ self-reported race is a ...

In a study published in PLoS Biology on 8 May ... set of health records. The papers all seemed to follow a similar template, associating one variable — for example, vitamin D levels or sleep ...

Armed with funding, algorithms, and a tip line, this new effort aims to dig corrupt studies out of medical literature before ...

Prochlorococcus, a genus of bacteria that’s key to oxygen production in the ocean, tends to disappear when faced with marine ...

All humans who have ever lived were once each an individual cell, which then divided countless times to produce a body made up of about 10 trillion cells. These cells have busy lives, executing all ...

In the quest to design vaccines that better help the body's immune system fight disease, scientists are always looking for ...

A new paper from Macquarie University scientists outlines how engineered biological systems could solve limitations in traditional computing, as ...

During a tour of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Corey Allard noticed something strange: fish using six leg-like appendages to "walk" around the bottom of their tank.

By tapping into museum archives, it’s possible to fill in the missing chapters of a region’s pollution history, says ...