When we hear certain sounds, our brains often pair them with specific shapes. For example, most people will associate a sharp ...

The old saying "you are what you eat" suggests that our food choices determine our health and longevity. Now, a study ...

Human hands are a wonder of nature and unmatched in the animal kingdom. They can twist caps, flick switches, handle tiny objects with ease, and perform thousands of tasks every day. Robot hands ...

Singapore was a thriving trading hub hundreds of years before popular narratives depicted it as a quiet fishing village, according to a study of the cargo of a centuries-old shipwreck. Sometime during ...

Regular exercise is not only good for the body, but it may also help you stay cool under pressure. Research published in the ...

Creatures that can change from one form to another are a staple of science fiction: Think werewolves and Transformers. Nature ...

To stay in the air when hovering over a flower, bumble bees continually flap their wings rapidly, a metabolic process that generates a massive amount of internal heat. Their flight muscles work so ...

Rare diseases are complex medical disorders that are notoriously difficult to diagnose because many present with a wide variety of symptoms that can overlap with more common illnesses. Currently, ...

Scientists at the University of Groningen, led by Nobel laureate Ben Feringa and colleagues, have created a new porous material that captures and releases carbon dioxide using only visible light. The ...

Adding GLP-1 medications like Ozempic to progestin therapy could cut the risk of developing endometrial cancer. A retrospective study published in the journal JAMA Network Open found that women using ...

For obvious reasons, it would be useful to predict when an earthquake is going to occur. It has long been suspected that ...

Modern armor systems do not do a good enough job of protecting humans from blast-induced neurotrauma (brain and eye damage).