New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces intense scrutiny as he took office on Jan. 1. He enters office with high ...

As a baby, Elisa Fernández Sánchez’ mother would place her into the bow of the canoe and glide across the murky waters of the ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

As is the case with any human being, the person James is now is not the same person he was at 18 years old. Every person can ...

Smartwatch makers promise to turn your wrist into a sleep lab, translating tiny movements and heart rate blips into colorful ...

Sean Ryder, professor at UMass Chan Medical School, has written a book to delve the mysteries of ribonucleic acid as a tool to fight diseases. Messenger ribonucleic acid, or mRNA, is in the public ...

These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close ...

A simple light-based method is uncovering hidden fiber networks inside the brain and body, even in tissue slides over 100 years old.

Imagine watching a conversation between brain cells, seeing chemical messages pass from one neuron to another. Scientists can ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

The issue of cholesterol is a lot more complicated than most people think – there are as many as eight different blood tests ...