US President Donald Trump asked US universities earlier this month to sign a ‘compact’ aligning their student admissions, ...

When athletes devote large amounts of energy to running or cycling, they unconsciously cut back on energy output elsewhere.

An electronic eye implant has restored vision in people with blindness caused by age-related macular degeneration.

Slow, sleep-like brain waves persist in part of the brain that has been surgically disconnected from the rest of the organ even though the person is awake. The findings 1, published in PLoS Biology, ...

He showed that specialized cells retain the genes to form an organism.

Some of today’s most capable AI systems are refined versions of large language models (LLMs) that predict text on the basis ...

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

Who will pay for global health? Scientists and policy leaders explored this question when they met this week at the World ...

A second blood test has been been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to assist in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease ...

Online stereotypes about younger women and older men could impact real-world hiring decisions.

People with certain forms of the MC4R gene have lower cholesterol levels than do other individuals with a high body-mass ...

Is it fair for grant reviewers — who are often our colleagues — to judge the legitimacy of career breaks due to personal ...