More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary ...

A fossil overlooked for nearly 80 years has revealed a previously unknown crocodile relative that lived 210 million years ago ...

A compound in rice bran may help calm an overactive gut by reducing the calcium signals that cause intestinal muscles to contract. Ferulic acid suppressed contractions triggered by several chemical ...

Signals traveling from the gut to the brain may help turn meals into lasting memories. Rats showed stronger memory activity ...

A liquid brushed onto cavities in seconds may spare many young children from pain, infection, and surgery. A major U.S. trial ...

Ultrafast X-rays revealed how a molecule converts absorbed light into motion in just trillionths of a second. Individual ...

As Mohenjo-daro prospered, the gap between its richest and poorest households actually shrank. Its shared infrastructure, fair trade systems, and lack of powerful royal elites suggest that equality ...

Sleeping well during a heatwave starts with stopping the home from overheating. Close blinds against strong sunlight, ...

Researchers have uncovered a possible biological pathway connecting obesity to Alzheimer’s disease. Obesity appears to raise levels of certain fat molecules that can travel to the brain, disrupt its ...

Europa’s hidden ocean has made the icy moon one of the solar system’s most promising places to search for habitable ...

Keeping a regular daily schedule may help reduce pain and depression, especially among older adults with insomnia.

Scientists expected SuperAgers might simply inherit fewer Alzheimer’s-related risks, but their genes looked much like those ...