Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a ...

Keeping sex on the schedule may be its own menopause medicine: among 900 women aged 40-79, those active in the last three ...

A blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drug might be doing more than controlling blood sugar—it could also be protecting the ...

Chalmers engineers built a pulse-driven qubit amplifier that’s ten times more efficient, stays cool, and safeguards quantum ...

Washington University researchers found that raising a molecule called ApoM helps eye cells sweep away harmful cholesterol ...

Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist ...

Wildfires don’t just leave behind scorched earth—they leave a toxic legacy in Western rivers that can linger for nearly a decade. A sweeping new study analyzed over 100,000 water samples from more ...

Major depressive disorder affects hundreds of millions worldwide, but a key to understanding its origins may lie in the brain ...

UC San Diego scientists have created a gene therapy that goes beyond masking Alzheimer’s symptoms—it may actually restore ...

Over 300 million years ago, Earth experienced powerful bursts of carbon dioxide from natural sources—like massive volcanic eruptions—that triggered dramatic drops in ocean oxygen levels. These ancient ...

Scientists have uncovered a stealthy tactic used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus: one of its proteins can leap from infected cells to ...

Southern resident killer whales have been caught on drone video crafting kelp tools to groom one another—an unprecedented ...