People who have razor-sharp minds in their 80s and 90s — known as “SuperAgers” — produce twice the number of young neurons as cognitively healthy adults and 2.5 times as many as people with ...

Yasin El Abiead (left), Elia Mascolo (center), and Gabriela Lobinska (right) are fellows in the U.S.–Austrian APART-USA Fellowship program. Photographed at the The Austrian Academy of Sciences in ...

Amber Dance is a freelance science writer near Los Angeles, California. Walk into a big academic library, and chances are you’ll enter a hushed space with soaring ceilings. “It’s like going into a ...

The deterioration of the Earth’s ozone layer, which protects the planet from harmful radiation, was viewed as an existential threat to humanity for decades. But today, you rarely hear about it. Ever ...

TWICE has hit the 400 million mark with yet another music video! On February 21 at around 8 a.m. KST, TWICE’s music video for their 2018 summer hit “Dance The Night Away” surpassed 400 million views ...

Carl Grillmair was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Monday, Feb. 16 Carl Grillmair/Facebook Carl Grillmair was found dead on the porch of his Los Angeles home on Monday, Feb. 16 The Caltech ...

While breaking wind could help protect against Alzheimer’s and postpartum depression, there can be too much of a “good” thing. Scientists recently discovered that we’re passing gas a lot more often ...

A new study published in Microbiology Spectrum reveals that what you feed your sourdough starter could affect a loaf's flavor. After feeding three different types of wheat flour to distinct sourdough ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient landscapes at heights of up to 8 meters. They had smooth trunk-like pillars and ...

Pew Research Center has tracked trends in public trust in scientists closely since 2016. In the new survey, public confidence in scientists is about the same as last year: 77% of U.S. adults say they ...

New research shows tropical forests can recover twice as fast after deforestation when their soils contain enough nitrogen. Scientists followed forest regrowth across Central America for decades and ...