Being socially isolated could increase death risk in the elderly even if they don’t feel lonely.
Being socially isolated could increase death risk in the elderly even if they don’t feel lonely.
Researchers find that temporary double-stranded DNA breaks commonly result from normal neuron activation—but expression of an Alzheimer’s-linked protein increases the damage.
A Portuguese professor explores the poisons and potions of opera.
Researchers show that a bacterium’s self-sacrifice can benefit its community, even when the members are not strongly related.
Researchers are finding new drugs for chronic pain and autoimmune diseases by modifying animal venom-derived molecules that target the nervous and immune systems.
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
Researchers find remarkably active bacteria in the Mariana Trench, where they live under pressure 1,000 times greater than at the surface.
Artist Mara G. Haseltine unveils her latest exhibition of science-inspired sculpture, a melancholy ode to marine plankton set to the music of Puccini.
Rock samples from deep within the Earth’s oceanic crust contain chemosynthetic microbial life.
A surgeon sues the Nobel Assembly for excluding him from last year’s prize awarded for regenerative science, but stem cell scientists are skeptical of his claims.