Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the ...

Cells shrink a major internal structure as they age. New research shows this downsizing is deliberate—and linked to longer ...

Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

Northwestern researchers have developed a wireless device that uses patterns of light to send information directly to the ...

Millions of people live with atrial fibrillation, a racing, uneven heartbeat that can leave you exhausted and scared. Yet it has been at least 30 years since a new drug for this common rhythm problem ...

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth's surface almost 3000 million years ago.

Specifically, scientists have worked with “exosomes” — tiny biological mail trucks that stem cells dispatch to tell neighbors ...

This year could mark a turning point for one of science’s most familiar animals: the laboratory mouse. For decades, mice and rats have been indispensable to biomedical research, underpinning ...

Companion studies suggest muscle begins to decline decades before sarcopenia takes hold for keeps. The best part: The process ...

Early diagnosis and noninvasive monitoring of neurological disorders require sensitivity to elusive cellular-level alterations that emerge much earlier than volumetric changes observable with ...

In tight spaces that trap most microbes, one bacterium keeps moving by reconfiguring how it swims, revealing a new biological ...

The famous bangus (scientific name Chanos chanos) has been a source of delicious menus such as sinigang na bangus, daing na bangus and paksiw na bangus on the dining tables of Filipino families. In ...