Cutting calories doesn’t just slim you down—it also reduces cysteine, an amino acid that flips fat cells from storage mode to ...

High-fat diets and obesity reshape astrocytes—star-shaped brain cells in the striatum that help regulate pleasure from eating ...

Neuroscientist Dr. Randy J. Nelson explores how artificial light at night disrupts our bodies, from immune health to mood.

A new gel-based treatment could change the way diabetic wounds heal. By combining tiny healing messengers called vesicles ...

Chinese scientists uncovered a powerful energy source for deep Earth microbes: hydrogen and oxidants generated by rock ...

ORACLE, a powerful new tool that speeds up evolution, allowing scientists to design and improve proteins thousands of times ...

Scientists discovered that jewel wasp larvae that undergo a developmental "pause" live longer and age more slowly at the ...

Stopping prescription weight loss drugs often leads to significant weight regain, according to a large-scale analysis of 11 global studies. Researchers found that although these medications, including ...

Scientists have discovered how harmful clumps inside brain cells—linked to diseases like ALS and Huntington’s—form, and found a way to break them apart. These sticky tangles of RNA develop inside tiny ...

Scientists have successfully synthesized methanetetrol, an incredibly unstable and previously elusive compound thought to be ...

Astronomers have discovered a ghostly, million-light-year-long bridge of stars connecting two massive galaxies within the ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have grown a first-of-its-kind organoid mimicking an entire human brain, complete with ...