Virtually every aspect of your health can be traced back to your microbiome. But some tests are better than others.

For Lewis Pugh, it was a love of the environment and a passionate desire to save the Arctic from global warming. His 1 km swim (0.62 of a mile) in 2007 made him the first person to complete a ...

Pregnancy and childbirth are both core, foundational building blocks of, well, the entire human race, yet the truth is that ...

Scientists discover how aging alters the function of cells, called mesenchymal drift, and manage to reverse this process.

Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And often you’re not even aware that they exist. There are tons of things we ...

Scientists at the Princeton University Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have identified novel mechanisms by which a metabolic derivative of vitamin A—all-trans retinoic ...

There’s a lot of debate about weight machines in the fitness world. Some people gravitate towards them because they seem a heck of a lot easier than cranking out some reps with a pair of dumbbells or ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

How much of our genome really matters? Some argue that because most of our DNA is active, it must be doing something important. Others say even random DNA would be highly active. This has now been put ...

A central figure in the sprawling, nationwide network of human remains trading that ensnared Harvard Medical School was sentenced in federal court to six years in prison. Jeremy Pauley, who lives in ...

A powerful human launcher sends a person flying at high speed, capturing acceleration, airtime, and the intense moment of impact. This video shows physics in action, body control, and what happens ...

We’re far from realizing the kind of nanomachines envisioned in media like “The Diamond Age” and Metal Gear Solid, but scientists have just taken a meaningful step towards the next best thing. A team ...