Gene editing, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and the life sciences shaping medicine and our understanding of living systems.
Penn scientists found that telomere length is decided in the embryo's first cell divisions — not by genes alone, but by which pa…
500 million years ago, a tiny green organism crawled out of the ocean and rewrote Earth's future. Here's the fascinating story of …
Scientists used quantum-level GW calculations to screen 55 metal cations and identify ion-exchanged PHI photocatalysts that produc…
Scientists froze a living mouse brain to −196°C and recovered full memory-forming function. This 2026 PNAS study is the closest…
A 90-million-year-old Alnashetri fossil from Patagonia just dismantled everything paleontologists thought they knew about how smal…
A hair-thin flake of the ferroelectric mineral CuInP2S6 has shattered birefringence records in the blue-ultraviolet range — and …
Hundreds of studies link health insurance to better health — but does coverage actually cause better outcomes? A landmark review…
A Japanese shrub depends entirely on a seed-eating beetle for pollination — then drops infested fruits early. New research revea…
A landmark algorithm called Conservatory has catalogued 2.3 million conserved non-coding sequences across 284 plant species — in…
A Harvard-led COSMOS trial of 958 adults found Centrum Silver slowed two mortality-predicting epigenetic clocks — PCGrimAge and …
For 50 years, protein folding defeated science's best minds. Then DeepMind built AlphaFold — and solved it in minutes. Here's wh…
A 7 Tesla MRI study from Fudan University has mapped the exact mechanism the hippocampus uses to distinguish familiar from unfamil…
A landmark Buck Institute study combining cellular reprogramming, senolytics, and epigenetic reversal has produced the most signif…