For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the ...

For the first time, researchers have shown that self-assembled phosphorus chains can host genuinely one-dimensional electron ...

More than a century after its discovery, Scandinavia’s oldest plank boat is finally giving up new secrets. By analyzing ...

A sweeping review of global research suggests that exercise—especially aerobic activities like running, swimming, and dancing ...

New data from major dark-energy observatories suggest the universe may not expand forever after all. A Cornell physicist calculates that the cosmos is heading toward a dramatic reversal: after ...

Researchers have uncovered the enzyme behind chromothripsis, a chaotic chromosome-shattering event seen in about one in four cancers. The enzyme, N4BP2, breaks apart DNA trapped in tiny cellular ...

A parasite that may already be hiding in your brain has a shocking survival trick: it can infect the very immune cells sent to destroy it. Yet most people never get sick, and new research from UVA ...

Researchers have built a realistic human mini spinal cord in the lab and used it to simulate traumatic injury. The model reproduced key damage seen in real spinal cord injuries, including inflammation ...

Psychedelics can quiet the brain’s visual input system, pushing it to replace missing details with vivid fragments from ...

A major new study suggests that eating the Nordic way could help you live significantly longer—while also helping the planet.

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

A massive review of 23 randomized trials found that statins do not cause the vast majority of side effects listed on their ...