The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

Yawning and deep breathing each have different effects on the movement of fluids in the brain, and each of us may have a ...

Wildfire smoke, spore-spread fungal diseases and microplastic are all on the rise, even as the US government slashes support ...

When making rules on fine particulate matter and ozone limits, the EPA will no longer calculate the monetary value of lives ...

The human gut is home to trillions of beneficial microbes that play a crucial role in health. Disruptions in this delicate ...

Abnormal clumps of proteins like α-synuclein, amyloid beta and tau are associated with neurodegenerative conditions like ...

Abnormal clumps of proteins like α-synuclein, amyloid beta and tau are associated with neurodegenerative conditions like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, but a waste removal mechanism called the ...

I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

Interestingly, there is one case where the villain defeated himself, which spoke volumes about that character's own arc.

A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae—responsible for atypical pneumonia and other respiratory infections—to obtain cholesterol ...

The Asian swamp eel is an air-breathing, mud-loving predator spreading throughout the United States. These slithering threats are hard to detect and built to survive conditions that affect native fish ...