When it’s time to have a difficult conversation with a dying patient about whether to insert a feeding tube, Dr. Jonathan ...

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...

Dark matter doesn’t seem to interact with the matter we can see and touch, so scientists look for it in unusual places, like faraway galaxies and underground detectors.

Over the ensuing five hours, the NIH leadership and MAHA Institute moderators found many areas of common ground: anger over ...

Breaking new science reveals how a specific fiber can decrease liver fat synthesis, increase fat burning, and even turn sugar into proteins. But that's only the ...

She told Mary that she’d started taking Ozempic for weight loss. “If I have more than two beers now, I go outside and barf,” ...

One of the problems with the study of consciousness is the lack of a universally accepted operational definition. Scientist René Descartes famously proposed the idea of cogito ergo sum (“I think, ...

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

Would you be a different person if you had grown up somewhere else? A growing body of research is helping to answer this ...

Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune systems. The only difference was that half the group got their medications ...

Another experiment aboard the ISS examined whether key sperm maturation steps required for fertilization could proceed in ...

For most of their history, moths navigated the night by the moon and stars. Today, that natural map is being drowned out by ...