BETHESDA, MD – When you scratch an itch, something tells your brain when to stop. That moment of relief, when scratching ...

Researchers in Australia have developed a flexible nylon-film device that generates electricity from compression and keeps ...

Getting enough sleep may be more important for heart health than many busy professionals realize. A new multicenter study ...

Cleaner fish interacted with a mirror in their tank in a way that suggests ‘contingency testing’ intelligence, a higher form of smarts typically found in mammals. This finding coupled with faster self ...

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, such as autism and Down syndrome, experience substantially higher rates of anxiety and depression than the general population of ...

Harvard researchers have developed OpenMetabolics, an open-source, smartphone-based activity monitor that uses machine ...

Researchers used a virus-based CRISPR system to precisely edit the gatekeeper enzyme HMGR in petunias and lettuce, ...

Recently re-exposed mosses, photographed in 2024 by Prof Peter Convey. These mosses had been covered by ice for around a thousand years.

How will a warming Arctic affect plant growth on Svalbard? Researchers encased plant plots in a thick layer of ice during the ...

An Adelie penguin photographed by Prof Bethan Davies. Adelie penguins are highly dependent on sea ice coverage and a healthy population of krill, both of which are placed at risk by the climate crisis ...

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital have discovered a previously undescribed virus in a common gut bacterium. The virus appears more frequently in ...

Remains of the McCloud Glacier, 2024, photographed by Prof Pete Convey. "Note the clear nunatak at the mid-right of the glacier," said Convey. "This is named 'Manhaul Rock' and, when I was first on ...