Struggle with math? A gentle jolt to the brain might help.A new study published in PLOS Biology suggests that mild electrical stimulation can boost arithmetic performance -- and offers fresh insight ...

Cancer fighting T-cells, the immune system's primary enforcers, are scarce in the rare kidney cancer called chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (ChRCC) and those that are present are indifferent to the ...

Scientists have created an artificial RNA system that can copy itself using simple building blocks and temperature changes.

That led to Jacobs telling the story of when he cut himself with a blade to get out of his 10th-grade Biology class. Jacobs went on to blade again during a college course. In college, he was taking a ...

A group of scientists studying pregnancy across six different mammals—from humans to marsupials—uncovered how certain cells at the mother-baby boundary have been working together for over 100 million ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

The remarkable benefits of chess, according to Dr. Gregory Ward, could potentially help athletes better understand and manage ...

Have you ever felt like your dog had a sixth sense? We know they have outstanding hearing (they’re at our door waiting when ...

In the frozen reaches of the planet—glaciers, mountaintops, and icy groundwater—scientists have uncovered strange ...

By applying advanced structural biology techniques, Kovalev discovered that the secret to their blue color is the same rare ...

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how ...