Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of eukaryotes, the domain of life defined by cells with a membrane-bound nucleus, which includes all animals, plants, fungi, and insects. If they unravel ...

The popular nursery rhyme This Little Piggy is an early childhood memory for many of us. It’s a poem that involves five little piggies, each corresponding to one of our fingers or toes. Kids love it, ...

A study from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), published in Nature Communications, reveals how ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

They make sure their routine makes the mornings much more bearable. Mornings are a battlefield for so many. Some people are able to wake up and immediately silence their alarm before jumping out of ...

When Amanda Smith walked into the kitchen one night in 2015 to warm up a bottle for her four-month-old daughter, she couldn’t make out the numbers on the microwave. They were blurry. They’d never been ...

What is being hailed as a 'cancer treatment breakthrough' comes not from a brand-new experimental drug, but from a 40-year-old medicine used to treat worms. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University ...

A group of Penn researchers found that a common blood pressure medicine can be used to prevent brain cancer cells from growing. After trying to understand how the drug, hydralazine, works at a ...

About five million people worldwide have systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disease that damages organs and tissues throughout the body, including skin, joints, kidneys, heart, and ...

A hidden structure inside the cell is rewriting how scientists understand leukemia. Beneath the microscope, what looked like disorder turned out to follow a simple physical rule – one that connects ...

How do they manage it? That’s the question Northwestern University researchers have been aiming to answer with a 25-year-long study. It examined the brains and lifestyles of almost 300 super-agers. As ...