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The ozone layer has been on track to recover thanks to the Montreal Protocol—but a loophole may be holding it back. Chemicals still permitted for industrial use are leaking into...
A study from the University of Toronto Scarborough suggests that feeling mentally sharp can significantly boost how much you accomplish in a day. Researchers found that when people are thinking...
The Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda's Kibale National Park is the largest known community of wild chimpanzees in the world. Over the last decade, it has split into two distinct groups that are hostile to.
The four astronauts on NASA's Artemis II lunar mission are set to return to Earth Friday evening. The crew is wrapping up a journey around the moon with a planned splashdown off San Diego, Calif.
Over time, however, it can contribute to serious health problems such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity, arthritis, and even cancer. Inside the body, this process is driven by immune cells that release chemical signals to respond to injury or infection. The researchers wanted to see whether pairing these compounds could reduce inflammatory signals more effectively than using them individually.
Researchers have developed a powerful new way to map how brain cells connect by tagging neurons with molecular "barcodes." We are approaching the brain the same way," said study leader Boxuan Zhao, a professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Potential To Transform Alzheimer's and Brain Disease Research Because it is both fast and scalable, Connectome-seq could significantly accelerate research into neurodegenerative diseases, psychiatric conditions and other brain disorders.
Mars may look like a quiet, dusty world, but it’s actually buzzing with hidden electrical activity.
A new study shows that gene therapy can significantly improve hearing in people born with congenital deafness or severe hearing loss. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, working with hospitals and universities in China, treated ten patients and saw hearing improve in every case. "We and other researchers are expanding our work to other, more common genes that cause deafness, such as GJB2 and TMC1.
