Category Science

A simple blood draw may soon help answer one of the most difficult questions in Alzheimer’s disease: When will symptoms start? In a study published in Nature Medicine, researchers report…

In the U.S., a baby is born every 9 seconds. A person dies every 9 seconds. An international migrant enters the country every 90 seconds. This means the U.S. gains…

It may come as a shock that snowmen can be found in space, although they’re not the same jolly, carrot-nosed fellows we have here on Earth. Just beyond Neptune, icy…

The story of how complex life began is largely understood, but one contradiction has never quite fit. Plants, animals, and fungi — known collectively as eukaryotes — likely emerged when…

A new analysis could reshape the timeline of early human dispersal. An interdepartmental and international research team recently found that our ancient ancestors, Homo erectus, likely appeared in Yunxian, China,…

There’s a birthday cake in the conference room. A dish of candy at the reception desk. A box of Girl Scout cookies someone left in the break room with a…

A gentle sequence of flowing movements might not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about lowering blood pressure — but new research suggests it could be…

What if the binding constraint on the next wave of scientific AI is not compute, not talent, and not architecture but the data underneath it all? I suspect for many…

About 215 million years ago, long before crocodiles lurked in rivers and swamps, one of their ancestors was built for speed. It had long, slender legs, a lightly built body,…

Here on Earth, cold-water geysers may share a thing or two in common with eruptions on ocean worlds found in the outer Solar System. The search for life beyond Earth…