Learn about flavonoids — the chemical compounds that are found in black tea, berries, and other foods and beverages — that are associated with healthy aging.

Learn how the brain develops navigational skills at a young age, demonstrated by an experiment in which young children explored a tiny virtual town.

Learn more about Ca. Electrothrix yaqonensis, a new species of cable bacteria — named after the Yaqona people — that could assist in environmental cleanup and produce better biomedical devices.

Researchers modelled the spread of three prevalent fungi based on various climate change scenarios.

Learn how a breakthrough genetic study may help scientists locate and save one of Earth’s most elusive mammals.

Although research tends to emphasize isolated alcoholics, people who routinely abuse alcohol in public are equally susceptible to addiction.

Learn more about how fungi inside of us may hold the key to curing fatty liver disease.

Learn about May's upcoming full moon, the Flower Moon of 2025, and find out what makes it worth watching.

Learn more about the historic hospital in Milan, where thousands of buried bodies provide an unprecedented look into the medical treatments of the 17th century.

Learn more about the Yangtze finless porpoise and how researchers used ancient poems to map out it's habitat decline.

Limiting access to mind-altering substances may have provided leaders with a means to create, control a class system.

Test investigates whether the proteins that trigger celiac disease symptoms can be swapped via saliva.

Learn how some fungi turn insects into zombies, others infect humans, and how they can’t be killed with drugs.

Learn more about the discovery of insulin and the controversy this life-saving medicine sparked.

Learn about what can happen in the brain following a herpes virus infection, potentially raising the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Learn more about how engineers designed a capsule that can ease our drug routines.

The sudden heat altered oceans’ chemical composition, which affected some top aquatic reptilian predators more than some other species.

Learn more about the link between common mental health conditions and personality.

Learn more about the antibodies of a self-immunizing donor that could help create a universal snake antivenom.

Routes to satisfaction vary from person to person and come from either or both internal and external sources.

Learn how the examination of Austrian mummy remains reveals details of his life, but leaves a few mysteries behind.

A new probiotic could soon tackle the burden of heavy-metal-contaminated fish.

Animals don’t wear watches, but they may be able to keep track of time. Learn how they do it.

Learn the best time and place to view the upcoming Eta Aquarids meteor shower.

Learn how human healing compares to healing in other primates and mammals, whose fur may help their skin stitch itself together.

Flares from a supermagnetized star may have generated as much as 10 percent of our galaxy’s heavy elements.

Learn how fossil footprints prove pterosaurs walked the Earth long before they vanished from the sky.

Artistic depictions of the Ancient Egyptian god Nut reveal an awareness of the Milky Way galaxy.

Ultrasound treatments are on the rise — and they’re not just for imaging anymore.

Learn more about the latest trend that's encouraging people to forgo sunscreen, and how not applying it could actually be worse for your skin.

Learn more about the straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus, which disappeared from Europe between around 50,000 and 34,000 years ago.

Learn how trees prepare for a solar eclipse, communicating with each other by synchronizing their bioelectrical signals.

Understanding how waves produced by volcanic eruption can enter the atmosphere has implications for both satellite safety and weather forecasting.

Prior mental health conditions, as well as the environment in which ayahuasca is taken and the people around participants can all impact the outcome.

Learn how new research reveals how nature can ease pain, benefiting both the body and mind.

Learn more about the trending caveman method and why turning to our ancient ancestors for skincare may not be the safest idea.

A sebecid tooth and two vertebraes found in the Dominican Republic show that the crocodile species persisted in the Caribbean after it died out in other areas.

Learn more about Malassezia, a type of fungi that’s found on human skin, which could help humans fight off antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria.

Learn about NIST-F4, the latest cesium fountain clock that now stands as one of the most accurate timekeepers in the entire world.

More and better kinds of screening as well as new, more targeted treatments are making breast cancer less deadly.