About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of our planet occurred: a huge celestial body called ...

A new Science paper challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ...

Mississippi State biologist Matthew W. Brown, the university’s Donald L. Hall Professor of Biology, is part of an ...

The pancreas is essential for staying alive and healthy. This small organ sits behind the stomach and has two main jobs. It ...

When President Donald Trump’s administration abruptly canceled federal subscriptions to Springer Nature journals this summer, ...

Peanut allergy is one of the most common food allergies, affecting between 1% and 2% of people living in the west. And, for ...

Peanut allergy is one of the most common food allergies, affecting between 1% and 2% of people living in the west. And, for many years, their prevalence has been rising. But a ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how ...

Why do the world’s most prestigious firms—such as McKinsey, Goldman Sachs and other elite consulting giants, investment banks ...

Something strange goes on inside the material platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi₂). A new study by researchers at IFW Dresden and the ...

Move over, colonoscopies — researchers report in ACS Sensors that they’ve developed a sensor made of tiny microspheres packed ...

Once the clocks have gone back and darkness falls before many of us even leave work, the rhythms of winter can feel heavier — ...