Despite falling global mercury emissions, mercury levels in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A new study reveals that ocean currents are delivering legacy mercury pollution from distant regions like ...

A protective sugar coating on brain blood vessels, once thought to be insignificant, turns out to play a vital role in ...

Scientists have discovered that your breathing pattern is as unique as a fingerprint and it may reveal more than just your ...

Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of ...

Teens might finally have a good reason to sleep in on weekends within limits. A new study reveals that teenagers who get up ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins found that fragments of tumor DNA can appear in the bloodstream up to three years before a cancer diagnosis, offering a potentially revolutionary window for early ...

Scientists have uncovered how exercise directly influences brain health in Alzheimer's disease by pinpointing the exact brain ...

Where do microplastics really go after entering the environment? MIT researchers discovered that sticky biofilms naturally ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown type of molecular motion inside DNA-based droplets: instead of spreading ...

Viruses closely related to the deadly MERS coronavirus are lurking in bats and one group, known as HKU5, may be just one mutation away from making the jump to humans. A new study reveals how these ...

A team at UC Davis has made a major leap in neurotechnology, enabling a man with ALS to speak again through a brain-computer interface that converts thoughts into speech in real time. Unlike prior ...

Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic ...