A new study has highlighted the complex emotions and ethical dilemmas of learning your future risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

A new study has highlighted the complex emotions and ethical dilemmas of learning your future risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Among 274 healthy research participants from the US ...

For the study, published in The EMBO Journal, the team used a technique called advanced light-sheet microscopy on a specially ...

For the first time, researchers have observed the brain activity of bees while they sleep. A study conducted at the ...

In April of 2020, physician-scientist Mady Hornig, at the time an associate professor at Columbia University, experienced an itchy throat, a swollen lymph node and a seriously inflamed and painful ...

Which country is the safest for a baby to be born? Answering this question might seem easy: divide the number of infants who die by the total number of infants born; make a map of these rates and find ...

In 2012, clinicians at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia treated Emily Whitehead, a 6-year-old with leukemia, with altered immune cells from her own body. At the time, the treatment was ...

Timing is everything. In 1996, a committee of British experts turned down the funding request of their colleague Harold Kroto. Two hours later, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the ...

As the old saying goes, you can’t polish a turd, but you can – and arguably should – study them. Doctors have long known that the contents of our toilet bowls offer real insights into our overall ...

Current methods of capturing and releasing carbon are expensive and so energy-intensive they often require, counterproductively, the use of fossil fuels. Taking inspiration from plants, Cornell ...

A few years ago, I decided to retrain as a neuroscientist. It was a leap into the unknown — no roadmap, just a desire to grow. I chose to approach this time of change with curiosity, and I started a ...

Australia is rather isolated today, but around 120 million years ago, the island straddled the polar circle and formed a giant landmass with Antarctica. At that time, dinosaurs lived on this landmass ...