The enteric nervous system (ENS), the largest division of autonomic nervous system, is a tantalizing frontier in neuroscience. With the advent of single-cell transcriptomics, the ENS has been ...

The question of how life appeared on Earth has intrigued generations. Some researchers are now putting forward an unexpected ...

Hamilton's rule, introduced in the 1960s, says that altruism—helping others at your own expense—can evolve when the benefits ...

A recent scientific revelation has identified a ‘third state’ that exists in the liminal space between life and death, a state that some experts argue may imply a level of consciousness within our ...

Aging is a complex biological process characterized by the gradual decline in physiological functions, leading to increased vulnerability to various ...