A single course of capsules containing gut microbes from healthy donors raised the amount of peanut protein that six people with severe peanut allergies could tolerate during supervised food ...

An experimental nasal spray improved memory and reduced brain inflammation in aged mice by delivering microscopic packets released by human neural stem cells. The finding is still an early trial, and ...

A disease can vanish from public memory long before it vanishes from the world. That gap, between what society remembers and what microbes continue to do, has allowed some of humanity’s oldest killers ...

View of St Bavo’s Abbey in modern day. Image via Wiki Commons. Archaeologists have uncovered part of the long-buried Spanish Castle, a massive stronghold ordered by Emperor Charles V in the 16th ...

Neanderthals disappeared as a distinct population around 40,000 years ago. But some of their genetic variants are still subtly shaping some human bodies today. We know, for instance, that Neanderthal ...

A small group of brain cells may help keep motivation alive when a task gets harder, a new study in rats suggests. The neurons, already known for regulating sleep, appetite, and energy use, appeared ...

Digital rendering of the Atahensik corona on Venus and the Dali Chasma rift system—based on radar data from the Magellan ...

The researchers found that surviving plants kept their leaves far cooler than the surrounding air. After eight days of 60° ...

China’s Zhurong rover may have driven across one of the most intriguing repositories of ancient Martian water yet discovered: ...

Dandelions may be the inspiration for a new generation of sensors. Image credits: Saad Chaudhry. Every week, scientific journals publish far more studies than the news cycle can absorb. Just a handful ...

Doctors have long wanted implantable sensors that can continuously monitor a person’s health without requiring major surgery or bulky external equipment. It’s a big engineering challenge. A device ...

The Fagradalsfjall volcano area in Iceland erupted spectacularly in 2021, creating a dazzling and fearsome display of lava. But the lava didn’t just flow neatly from the volcano. It gushed and spewed, ...