Intermittent fasting is not only a useful tool for weight loss, it’s also shown to have many benefits for metabolic health – ...

When does context become bias? It’s a question that engenders anxiety in many scientific disciplines, and with good reason. Information about a patient’s family history may nudge a doctor towards the ...

Some lucky people have rare genetic mutations that enable them to feel well-rested after just four hours of sleep, while the rest of us need around eight hours to function. Now, researchers have ...

A congested atmospheric pattern known as an "omega block" has brought extreme downpours and thunderstorms to parts of the U.S. over the past week, with flood warnings issued Wednesday (May 7) for the ...

Deep below the Pacific, a restless seafloor volcano off Oregon is showing signs it may soon stir again. Axial Seamount, a submarine volcano located nearly a mile beneath the ocean surface, is flexing ...

When you wave at yourself in the mirror, your reflection waves back. But biologically, there are many ways it’s painfully obvious that your reflection is fundamentally different from you.

Three centuries after Newton framed reality in fixed laws and deterministic equations, science has reached a radically new frontier, argue biochemist and complex systems theorist Stuart Kauffman and ...

Offering incredibly high temperatures, crushing pressure, and a thick mix of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, the atmosphere on Venus is deadly to human beings, several times over – but China has ...

We expected miracles; what we got was a legal minefield. As GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic reshape bodies and bottom lines, a growing swarm of lawsuits threatens to upend the billion-dollar industry. Are ...

Michigan State University’s Veterinary Diagnostic Lab has seen it all when it comes to testing animals for avian flu. Kimberly Dodd, dean of MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, jokes the lab has ...

Spend too long on social media and you might start to hear the term “cortisol face” used to describe someone with supposedly puffy eyes or cheeks. The phrase describes the physical signs that some ...

My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world’s most reputable economics journals to study ...