Scientists uncover a cellular survival mechanism that helps severely damaged tissue regenerate and may also reveal why some cancers return after treatment. ...

Around the world, billions of people still lack reliable access to safe drinking water. The United Nations estimates that 2.2 billion people do not have ...

Plastic bottles and cookies may seem to have nothing in common, but researchers are finding a way to connect the two. By engineering yeast, scientists have ...

Older adults may be able to shift important markers of aging in a surprisingly short amount of time simply by changing what they eat. New research from the ...

Every heartbeat, breath, and thought depends on a steady flow of energy inside your cells. That energy comes from mitochondria — the microscopic engines ...

Knitting is no longer limited to making familiar items such as sweaters, hats, and blankets. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

All known life on Earth relies on the same four-letter genetic alphabet. Researchers at the University of California San Diego have now shown that one of ...

A new study of bonnethead sharks (Sphyrna tiburo) in Florida is challenging a previous explanation for how males and females develop their distinctively ...

Aging often makes itself visible in familiar ways, from gray hair and wrinkles to lapses in memory. That has fueled a longstanding scientific question: ...

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified an unusual magnetic response that overturns a long-standing assumption about the Hall effect, a ...