A groundbreaking clinical trial is testing whether specially engineered stem cells can help the brain restore its own ...

Oxford researchers have found a way to visualize one of the most hidden — yet critical — components inside lithium-ion ...

Breathing polluted air may do more than harm your lungs — it could also increase your risk of Alzheimer’s disease. In a ...

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

Exercise may sharpen the mind by repairing the brain’s protective shield. Researchers found that physical activity prompts the liver to release an enzyme that removes a harmful protein causing the ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

A major breakthrough could help save the world’s bananas from a devastating disease. Scientists have discovered the exact ...

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the ...

Ocean waves are a vast and steady source of renewable energy, but capturing their power efficiently has long frustrated ...

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...