One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

The paper opened an entire research field. Since then, more than 7,000 published studies have shown the prevalence of ...

A research team has successfully recreated the structure of wrinkles in biological tissue in vitro, uncovering the mechanisms behind their formation.

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Astrophysicist Suzanna Randall explains where the elements in our body come from in this episode of "Starlight" from the ...

Collecting and storing comprehensive data on human biospecimens is essential for generating high-quality, reproducible ...

When studying the spread of cancer or the behavior of a virus like the one that causes COVID-19, the irony is that working ...

Damage to the natural world isn’t factored into the price of food. But some governments are experimenting with a new way of exposing the larger costs of what we eat. By Lydia DePillisManuela ...