As more people experience long-term health problems from COVID-19, long COVID clinics try to help patients manage symptoms, like brain fog and fatigue.
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s new book, The Song of the Cell, explores the world of cell biology through the lens of scientists, doctors and patients.
The annual competition highlights microscopic images that bring the smallest details from science and nature to life.
Big fish in shallow water are easy pickings for one fox — the first of its kind known to fish, a study finds.
Oklahoma’s Muscogee people, among others, promoted rule by the people long before the U.S. Constitution was written.
For people with long COVID, finding a place to get appropriate medical care is a challenge.
In 1972, scientists thought Stonehenge may have been a calendar. Today, we still don’t know its purpose, but we have gained insight on its origin.
Science has come up with a recipe for lulling a crying baby to sleep: Carry them for five minutes, sit for at least five more and then lay them down.
A whirling robotic pill wicks mucus from the gut, allowing intravenous drugs such as insulin to be given orally, experiments in pigs suggest.
In 1989, the Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first pics of Neptune’s rings. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is providing a more detailed look.
New results suggest that environment matters for the development of brain organoids, 3-D nerve cell clusters that grow and mimic the human brain.
Millions of ancient stars spanning about 18,000 light-years at the Milky Way’s heart are the kernel around which the galaxy grew, researchers say.
A high-profile retraction called a superconductivity result into question. But a new experiment appears to support it.
Three pioneers in quantum information science share this year’s Nobel Prize in physics.
By figuring out how to extract DNA from ancient bones, Svante Pääbo was able to decipher the genomes of our hominid relatives.
Click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry allow scientists to build complex molecules in the lab and in living cells.
Missing frogs, toads and salamanders may have led to more mosquitoes and potentially more malaria transmission, a study in Panama and Costa Rica finds.
As temperatures rise, more than 1 in 10 of the world’s blue lakes could change color, reflecting holistic shifts in lake ecosystems.
Bacterial cells shut down and become spores to survive harsh environments. An internal countdown signals when it’s safe for bacteria to revive.
The work is the latest in a decades-long quest to create artificial fibers as strong, lightweight and biodegradable as spider silk.
Evidence grows that possible detections of liquid water buried near Mars’ south pole might not hold water.
New high-speed filming gives a first glimpse of mosquito hunting too fast for humans to see.
A mysterious little ground-dwelling reptile unearthed in a Scottish sandstone over 100 years ago turns out to be part of a famous flying family.
Sperm that swim in clusters travel more directly toward the uterus, while overcoming fluid currents in the reproductive tract.