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People who have type 2 diabetes face an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, but the cause of that risk is poorly understood....

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 27, 2022 — Women with high stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic were twice as likely to experience changes in their menstrual cycle...

Faculty members recently began moving their labs into the new Phillip and Patricia Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science, widely considered as a focal...

Texas Biomed will help map the developing brain with unprecedented detail for the National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN). NIH recently awarded...

“Dicamba drift” — the movement of the herbicide dicamba off crops through the atmosphere — can result in unintentional damage to neighboring plants. To prevent...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2022 – AIP is organizing a competition for undergraduate students in the physical sciences to design a spaceborne starshade. The device will...

Researchers working in the Marsquake Service at ETH Zurich have been analyzing the measurements made by the NASA InSight mission’s seismometer on one of our...

By studying seismic data and orbital observations linked to two major meteorite impacts at the end of 2021, the international teams of NASA's InSight and...

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have successfully used a cell’s natural process for making proteins to “slide” genetic instructions into a cell and produce...

All living cells harbor nuclei—key biological structures that play an important role in information storage, retrieval, and duplication of genetic information. In mammals, these nuclei...

LA JOLLA, CA—Genetic mutations kick start cancers. Some mutations shuffle the genetic code, others come from the deletion of key genes. Credit: Image courtesy Rao Lab,...

A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars. The maps offer the strongest case yet that...

Oppressive, frightening, nerve-wracking: nightmares are particularly disturbing dreams. They are considered pathological when they occur frequently (>1 episode per week) and cause daytime fatigue, mood...

Pick an object in front of you—a teacup, for example—and fix your gaze on it.  You may think that you’re keeping your eyes still, but...

Seismologists from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a new method to scan the deep interior of planets in our solar system to confirm...