In February 2025 I got to visit Terrapower, a self-proclaimed nuclear innovation company. In part one of this sponsored series, you saw the science behind turning nuclear waste into ca ...

What really happens to your mind in a crisis? We all think we know how we'd react in an emergency—but according to journalist and author Amanda Ripley, we're usually wrong.

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a blood test that can identify early signs of Alzheimer’s ...

Ask scientists what gene editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they’d probably describe a system that’s ...

A new study has highlighted the complex emotions and ethical dilemmas of learning your future risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

A large-scale genomic study of over 1,500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and ...

For decades, doctors and researchers have puzzled over a basic heart rhythm mystery: Why do women tend to have faster ...

The double-slit experiment is a famous quantum physics experiment that shows that light exhibits behavior of both a particle ...

Human beings are a panicky species – quick to fear and slow to understand. Over much of our evolutionary history, this ...

More than 60 million people are estimated to be living with dementia, resulting in over 1.5 million deaths a year and an annual cost to the global healthcare economy of around US $1.3 trillion (almos ...

The results of an international study led by researchers from Queen Mary University of London’s Precision Healthcare University Research Institute (PHURI) shed new light the underlying biological ...

For the study, published in The EMBO Journal, the team used a technique called advanced light-sheet microscopy on a specially engineered mouse model. This is a method where a thin sheet of light is ...