Science

MIT’s New Space-Habitat Atlas Maps How Architecture Could Help Astronauts Thrive As humanity prepares for longer missions to the Moon and eventual journeys to Mars,...

A microscopic chemical map of fossil penguin bones from Antarctica has revealed a hidden record of the continent’s ancient climate, showing how the region changed...

A new study is putting one of the earliest interventions in human health under the microscope: a synbiotic designed to influence the gut microbiome of...

Ovarian cancer has long been associated with a striking preference for the omentum, a fatty apron of tissue that hangs from the stomach and covers...

For more than two decades, oxytocin has been associated with the chemistry of social connection, but its effects on human trust have remained surprisingly difficult...

Cement could become more than a symbol of construction. In a new study, researchers at ETH Zurich report that cement manufacturing could be combined with...

A new study has found that many personal care and household cleaning products contain chemicals that do not appear on their labels, raising concerns about...

Painful Nerve Growths Reveal a Molecular Switch Toward Extreme Sensitivity Peripheral nerves are built to repair themselves. After an injury, axons—the long, signal-carrying extensions of...

New York, NY — August 11, 2026 — Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have advanced to the finals of XPRIZE...

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin and St. James’s Hospital have found that dexamethasone can suppress damaging inflammation caused by Mycobacterium avium without impairing the ability...

A new study published in Nature Communications introduces a foundation model designed to help clinicians assess patients with acute abdominal conditions using noncontrast computed tomography,...

Heart failure has long been treated as a problem of chemistry, electricity and plumbing: drugs reduce the strain on the heart, implanted devices regulate its...