A new genetic test, based on data from more than five million people, can identify people at risk of severe obesity. The test can be performed on children before their genetic risk starts to shape ...

A new commentary published in Nature Communications by Dr James Bradley, Reader in Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London, and his team reveals a dramatic and concerning shift in the ...

When environmental stress harms DNA, it can set off a cascade of failures linked to heart conditions, neurodegeneration, and ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco and Gladstone Institutes have identified cancer drugs that promise to reverse the changes that occur in the brain during Alzheimer’s, potentially slowing or even ...

Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived — or “pass” — as non-autistic. For the first time, researchers from Drexel University's A ...

A new genetic analysis using data from over five million people has provided a clearer understanding of the risk of going on to live with obesity.  New research led by the Universities of Copenhagen ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Astronomers have discovered a companion star in an incredibly tight orbit around Betelgeuse using the NASA and U.S. National ...

Northwestern University Prof. George Schatz and research associate Qinsi Xiong connected with the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering team through the Argonne National ...

Researchers led by UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering’s Chong Liu and Northwestern’s George Schatz have developed a tunable system that selectively controls chemical transport at the ...

A new tool developed at KAUST helps identify the optimal solvent for processing organic thermoelectric devices polymer films, boosting power output while reducing the time and resources spent on trial ...

Chromosome-level reference genomes of wild Oryza species can support neodomestication and the development of resilient, ...