Does keeping cool keep you young? How climate change affects aging.
Recent study identifies that heat waves pose a similar threat to public health as smoking tobacco or drinking alcohol.
Shortform Blog
A Team of Robots Designed to Explore Space Caves
Scientists have designed robots to autonomously map underground tunnels, with the eventual goal of sending these cave-explorers to other planets.
A new nickel-based superconductor exhibits high-quality, high-temperature superconductivity
A new material in a high-temperature, nickel-based superconductor family has been successfully made.
Our own gut microbes may hold the key to removing harmful pollutants from our body
Researchers show that microbes in our guts can accumulate and help remove ingested pollutants
Education itself at the root of the math gender gap
A massive study reveals four months after starting school, the gender gap in math appears
Meet the Solar-Powered Sea Slug that Performs “Animal Photosynthesis”
Scientists discover that a species of sea slug eats algae and repurposes the chloroplasts to perform photosynthesis in its own body.
Vitamin D supplementation improves a biomarker of aging, but will it make you live longer?
Clinical trial shows that vitamin D supplementation improves one marker of aging
Using Brain Cubes to create a Mitochondrial Map
Scientists reconstructed a map showing the distribution of mitochondria, the main energy provider of human cells, in the brain.
Microplastics have probably been around longer than you
Plastics found incorporated into freshwater fly casings place significant microplastic contamination as early as the ‘70s.
First steps to a comprehensive map of the mouse brain
By combining multiple techniques, scientists generate the most accurate model of brain activity to date
