In 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter the object's orbit around its larger companion asteroid.

Among its numerous health benefits, physical activity reduces the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. A new study on mice now dives into the specific mechanisms and proteins that allow exercise to ...

A method unveiled in 2023, developed by researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, takes advantage of how energy is stored or released when ...

A class of medications best known for treating diabetes and obesity may also reduce the risk of addiction – and help people ...

Hundreds of glass fragments found in Brazil are traces of an ancient impact that scattered them millions of years ago, ...

For many people, depression can make gaining control of one's thoughts and feelings seem out of reach. This study shows that taking just 10 minutes to learn evidence-based skills can be a valuable ...

Based on JWST's readings, which were collected on February 18 and 26, experts from NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object ...

A new kind of cellular immunotherapy shows promise in preventing Alzheimer's-associated plaques from forming in the brain – and even removing some when given in advanced cases.

Since their 2022 review, Milinski says the field has rapidly expanded, with a growing number of large-scale studies ...

Plastic pollution is seeping into the Earth, into wildlife, and into our bodies, and a new research review suggests tiny microplastics and nanoplastics could be disrupting some of the brain processes ...

Science is one step closer to cracking the code of longevity thanks to a new study that identified dozens of proteins linked with slower aging in the blood of centenarians.

A second pregnancy alters the brain in distinctive ways that are not simply a repeat of the first, new research shows.