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An international team links 'hyperconnectivity' and 'hypoconnectivity' signatures in brain imaging to distinct genetic and immune pathways, using mouse models as a biological Rosetta Stone.
Advanced 3D imaging reveals extinct ant species preserved in extraordinary detail, offering new insights into ancient forest ecosystems and behavior.
Ancient Pyrenees cave may represent one of earliest high-altitude mining camps ever discovered, with evidence of repeated visits spanning thousands of years.
The Seattle research powerhouse is launching a Brain Health Accelerator aimed at gene therapies for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and ALS that target diseased cells, not just proteins.
A new study finds that gut bacteria team up with marine fish to manufacture carbon-trapping minerals, revealing a hidden partnership that could reshape how scientists understand the ocean's carbon cycle.
In flatworms, Stanford researchers found a never-before-seen cell that detonates within two minutes of sensing a hormone, unleashing the most violent form of cell death ever recorded.
Child's remains and green mineral fragments suggest prehistoric communities repeatedly visited remote cave for copper processing. Discovery challenges beliefs about early human use of mountain environments.
Reanalyzing a faint 1979 tremor near the Utah-Idaho-Wyoming border, University of Utah researchers proved a rare class of 'continental mantle earthquakes' is rupturing rock that textbooks said should only slowly flow.
Cambridge scientists grew a miniature human nervous-system circuit that twitched real muscle, then discovered that neurons lose their power to regrow around mid-pregnancy. An existing hormone drug dramatically restored that ability.
Researchers identified specific amygdala neurons whose imbalanced activity alone can trigger pathological behaviors, then successfully restored normal function.
Conflicting measurements from NASA's Cassini mission made Saturn appear to change its rotation rate — something thought impossible. A new study finds the culprit is a self-sustaining 'planetary heat pump' driven by the giant's aurora.
The newly characterized world, more than six times Earth's mass, orbits the red dwarf Ross 318 where liquid water could exist — making it one of the most promising nearby targets in the search for habitable planets.
Researchers identify NFIL3 as key factor causing engineered immune cells to lose cancer-fighting power, opening path to improved treatments.
A King's College London study found that 12 months of abatacept kept high-risk patients from developing rheumatoid arthritis long after treatment ended, pointing toward a future of preventing the disease rather than just treating it.
Researchers report that epigenetic marks present at birth steer how a baby's gut microbiome develops in the first year — and that certain patterns were linked to early signs of autism and ADHD by age three.
Researchers tracking three generations of mice found hundreds of cases where chemical DNA marks were passed down in ways classical genetics says should be impossible — including the first naturally occurring mammalian paramutation.
The experimental jet, built to replace the sonic boom with a soft 'thump,' is set to go supersonic in early June, a milestone that could one day return high-speed passenger flight to the skies over land.
New images from the Hubble Space Telescope show the galaxy losing its star-forming gas as it races through the dense cluster, a process that is slowly snuffing out its ability to build new stars.
Scientists hauled laser scanners through more than 10 kilometers of remote caves to map the karst aquifer feeding Roaring Springs, finding that water can travel 20 kilometers underground in as little as a week.
Researchers found that disabling NFIL3 keeps engineered immune cells stronger for longer and improves tumor control in animal models.
Using Australia's ASKAP telescope, a team traced a baffling repeating signal to a white dwarf devouring its companion star — emitting bursts every 1.4 hours that are 100 times more powerful than any seen before.
Scientists report that iron-loaded immune cells in the pigeon liver may act as tiny magnetic sensors, helping the birds read Earth's magnetic field — a finding one researcher called 'mind-blowing.'
University of Birmingham researchers say their perovskite catalyst, built from cheap and non-toxic metals, could make hydrogen for less than today's 'green' and 'blue' methods by harnessing heat factories already throw away.
Researchers identified NFIL3 as a major obstacle causing engineered immune cells to become exhausted and lose their cancer-fighting power, offering new hope for improving treatment of solid tumors.
A topical dose of the senescence-clearing drug ABT-263 rejuvenated old skin in mice and closed wounds faster, pointing toward new treatments for surgery and chronic injuries in older adults.
A team at UC Riverside and the Weizmann Institute found that living chemistry spreads amino acids more evenly than non-life — a test that could be run on data from Mars, Europa and Enceladus.
A Cornell researcher's walk through an Ithaca graveyard uncovered a sprawling underground 'city' of solitary mining bees that may have thrived in the sandy soil for more than a century.
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to show that Saturn's apparently shifting rotation rate was an illusion created by powerful high-altitude winds — and that the planet's auroras run a self-sustaining heat engine.
University of Rochester engineers built a sunlight-powered device with laser-etched metal panels that pull fresh water from the sea while collecting salts and minerals — including lithium — as solids instead of dumping harmful brine.
The mission will explore largely uncharted regions of the Milky Way, potentially revealing more alien worlds than all previous missions combined.