A new cohort study of older adults suggests that physical fitness may be a powerful and measurable indicator of longevity....

Bananas may soon become easier to manage from harvest to supermarket shelf, thanks to a newly identified genetic switch that...

Tetralogy of Fallot, the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart disease, may be influenced by genetic changes hidden outside...

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Rice straw, often treated as agricultural waste, may be one of the most powerful tools available for storing carbon in...

Why Humans Reread Sentences That AI Finds Easy Some sentences seem to glide through the mind, while others bring reading...

Postoperative endophthalmitis, a rare but potentially devastating infection inside the eye, fell by 64.4% after a hospital introduced a comprehensive...

Floral fragrance is often treated as a charming but superficial feature of ornamental plants. In reality, scent is a complex...

Astrocytes, the star-shaped cells that support and nourish neurons, may possess a far greater capacity for self-repair than scientists once...

A quiet warning is emerging from the expanding edges of China’s cities. In the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration, landscapes undergoing the...

Parkinson’s disease is often described as a disorder of movement, but a new study highlights a biological difference that may...

Drug self-administration has long been regarded as one of the most informative laboratory approaches for studying substance use disorder. Unlike...

Food systems are failing to move fast enough on the goals that matter most for human health, environmental stability and...

Florida Atlantic University–developed video-compression technology has been acquired by Dolby Laboratories, placing research from the university at the center of...

Gastric cancer may be exploiting a little-known metabolic molecule to disable the immune system, according to research from Keio University...

A University of Waterloo research team is using artificial intelligence, data science and advanced mathematics to reveal how fires evolve...

Water scarcity is entering a more dangerous phase—one in which the problem is no longer defined simply by how much...

Data centers are often portrayed as invisible engines of the digital economy, powering artificial intelligence, cloud computing, streaming platforms and...

Triple-negative breast cancer has long presented one of oncology’s most difficult challenges: it lacks the three molecular markers—estrogen receptor, progesterone...

Parkinson’s disease is widely recognized for its tremor, slowed movement and muscle rigidity, but a new study is drawing attention...