An eight-year Finnish study found that children who spent more time on screens tended to show better cognitive processing as ...

Researchers combined synthetic DNA with a semiconductor to create an ultra-low-power memory device capable of storing and ...

A centuries-old heart drug costing less than ten cents a day could help keep heart-failure patients out of the hospital. New ...

Scientists have discovered that tiny, sharply curved wrinkles in graphene can dramatically alter its electrical behavior, ...

As we age, the body appears to sacrifice walking efficiency in exchange for stability. Older adults stiffen the ankle more ...

Physicists may have uncovered a hidden feature inside protons that helps preserve one of matter’s most fundamental properties ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising way triple-negative breast cancer may turn the body against itself. Tumors appear to ...

Scientists have discovered a new extinct amphibian species hiding in the fossil collections of Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits.

COVID-19 can reactivate dormant viruses hiding in the body, including Epstein-Barr, cytomegalovirus, and several herpes ...

Traveling electrical waves sweeping across the brain may help determine what we notice, predict what comes next, and construct our internal picture of the world. Researchers now argue that these waves ...

Scientists are searching some of Earth’s oldest rocks for tiny fossils that could reveal how simple microbial life made the ...

Caltech scientists have created ultra-low-loss optical pathways on silicon chips that approach the efficiency of fiber optics and dramatically outperform existing technology at visible wavelengths.