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For all their uncanny intelligence and seemingly supernatural abilities to change color and regenerate limbs, octopuses often suffer a tragic...

Farming has been thought to originate from a single population in Southwest Asia, which covers parts of the modern-day Middle...

Fresh techniques to aid seizure diagnosis and surgical planning stand to benefit millions of epilepsy patients, but the path to...

KANSAS CITY, MO—May 12, 2022—New research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research examines how cavefish, surface-dwelling river fish that...

The genetic origins of the first agriculturalists in the Neolithic period long seemed to lie in the Near East. A...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, one of the major causes of dependency and disability in older...

MS patients treated with Rituximab have better responses to the COVID-19 vaccine if they have higher B cell counts. This...

Did the world’s largest prehistoric shark need an orthodontist, or did it just have a bad lunch? Credit: Image: Jorge Gonzalez...

In “proof of concept” experiments with mouse and human cells and tissues, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have designed...

 Credit: Tel Aviv University   Sleep apnea can be life-threatening and can even contribute to a variety of health problems...

Researchers have observed the vortices that form in superfluid helium by blasting silicon nanoparticles at them using laser ablation. The...

For three decades, scientists have debated the underlying cause of Gulf War illness (GWI), a collection of unexplained and chronic...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers led by physics professor Charles Gammie is part of...

A WEHI-led study has identified a new enzyme involved in controlling cell death, in findings that could lead to better treatment...

The cerebral cortex is thought to be the seat of conscious processing in the brain. Rather than being inactivated, specific...

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 5 A.M. THURSDAY, MAY 12   A new study from North Carolina State University shows the...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (May 12, 2022) –   An algorithm that can speed up by years the ability to identify from among thousands...

Funding: Medical Research Future Fund, mRNA Victoria, Jack Ma Foundation, IFM Investors, Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical...

Jars of tiny platypus and echidna specimens, collected in the late 1800s by the scientist William Caldwell, have been discovered...

CHICAGO, May 10, 2022—Illinois Institute of Technology Professor of Political Science Matthew A. Shapiro has been awarded a Fulbright United States Scholar...