Even after drastic weight loss, the body’s fat cells carry the ‘memory’ of obesity, research 1 shows — a finding that helps ...

Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating ...

The world’s largest public funder of biomedical research seems poised for a major overhaul in the next few years.

To understand the effects of radiation on the body, two female ‘phantoms’, Helga and Zohar, were strapped into the Orion capsule as part of the Artemis I mission and launched into space on ...

In mice, stress altered the way that the brain packaged memories, resulting in an unnecessary fear response — but drugs were ...

Confidence that scientists will make decisions in the public interest nosedived at the onset of the pandemic but has now ...

Jingex was feeling their age. Over the past 10 or 15 yahn cycles, they’d grown and grown and grown, until they were no longer spry and youthful: inclined more towards reclining and relaxing than ...

Scientists have detected resistance to artemisinin, a key malaria drug, for the first time among children in Africa with ...

With technical advances and enthusiasm from policymakers, advocates say the time for next-generation geothermal has come.

Noack and his engineers have therefore been turning to robotics and automation to speed up the process of growing ...