On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to ...

On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu (Shark Bay). To the untrained eye they look like a ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, ...

At first, this seems like a paradox with a fundamental law of physics somehow getting broken here, but rather ...

At the dawn of the 20th century, old age wasn’t much of a problem. That’s because a newborn in 1900 could expect to live, on ...

Progress in quantum computing as an industry has been relatively stagnant for a while now. But over the past few weeks, ...

Penguins living along the Patagonian coast of Argentina can serve as living monitors of their environment by using small, chemical-detecting leg bands, according to a study from the University of ...

Scientists have unveiled a detailed "atlas" of the placenta and uterus, showing how these unique tissues grow and evolve throughout pregnancy to accommodate a developing fetus. In charting this new ...

In March 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) issued its report finding glyphosate—the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup—to be a “probable human carcinogen.” Since ...

After the British warship HMS Tyger ran aground on a coral reef near Garden Key, Florida, on January 13, 1742, even dumping its cannons overboard couldn’t set it free. Decades later, those same ...