A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new, and important or just 'background noise.' ...

Almost any activity has the potential to lead to flow, an almost Zen-like psychological state between boredom and worry.

Plants play a key role in regulating Earth's climate, but recent research suggests that rising temperatures could disrupt ...

Cleaner, more pure water backscatters light in the blue range, which makes it look blue. One famous example is Crater Lake in ...

Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved SpringWorks Therapeutics’ Gomekli (mirdametinib) to treat ...

Our immune system is armed with an array of defenses designed to detect and eliminate harmful threats. One of its most powerful defense mechanisms is the complement system-a group of proteins that ...

Great Lakes tribes and state biologists are working together to reintroduce Arctic grayling to northern Michigan's waterways ...

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows.

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

Dr. Erica Brozovsky of Otherwords explained the Latin-Germanic origins of body part names and how they turned into the words we use today.