Chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes and inflammatory disorders have a huge impact on humanity. They are a leading cause of disease burden and deaths around the globe, are physically and economically ...

When they fly around buildings, near trees, near rocks, near cliffs,” Lentink says. The leading hypothesis on how they manage ...

Lyudmila Trut, a Russian evolutionary geneticist at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics who died Oct. 9 at age 90, devoted her career to investigating such questions, replicating and compacting the ...

Scientists studied trace fossils called bromalites to reconstruct critical food webs in late Triassic, early Jurassic.

Large-scale disruptions to life may ultimately increase ecological complexity over geologic timescales, though the risk of ...

Research unveils the complex relationship between dopamine and serotonin, transforming our understanding of brain chemistry ...

Researchers suggest that the antidepressant effects of exercise might stem from its ability to decrease inflammation and ...

Open-ended research is essential to building solid hypotheses in the social sciences — without it, even the best-planned ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

If you've heard of two of the brain's chemical neurotransmitters, it's probably dopamine and serotonin. Never mind that ...

Missense mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilin-1 (PSEN1) cause early-onset familial Alzheimer’s disease (FAD) and alter proteolytic production of secreted 38-to-43-residue ...