New measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft have offered a clearer picture of what lies beneath the frozen surface of ...

Research has found that people who enjoy bird-watching and listening to them sing usually live more peaceful lives.

Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

A new study finds the hippocampus reorganizes memories to predict rewards. This discovery explains how the brain learns and why Alzheimer's affects decision-making.

About 55% of the human lifespan is heritable, meaning that more than half of the observed variation in longevity across a ...

Forecasting volcanic eruptions in time to alert authorities and populations remains a major global challenge. In a study ...

Scientists have long believed that longevity is shaped by lifestyle choices; however, a new study reveals that genes may play ...

The Nature study, published in November 2023, attracted significant media attention because it claimed that an autonomous ...

Scholar Susan Ostermann, due to take over as director of the university’s Asian studies institute on July 1, has written ...

Quantum computers need extreme cold to work, but the very systems that keep them cold also create noise that can destroy ...

In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the ...