Improved pest resistance and drought tolerance are among potential benefits of an international effort which has produced the clearest picture yet of the complex genomic history of the cultivated pean..

Cosmochemists have made the first-ever measurements of water contained in samples from the surface of an asteroid.

Living alone is positively associated with common mental disorders, regardless of age and sex, according to a new study.

Scientists have demonstrated that nickel 78, a neutron-rich 'doubly magic' isotope of nickel with 28 protons and 50 neutrons, still maintains a spherical shape that allows it to be relativel..

In experiments in mice, researchers say they have developed a technique that facilitates the precise placement of cancer drugs at their intended targets in the brain.

A systematic examination of the tumor and the tissue surrounding it — particularly normal cells in that tissue, called fibroblasts — has revealed a new treatment target that could potentially preven..

Scientists have discovered a new method for quickly and efficiently mapping the vast network of connections among neurons in the brain. Researchers combined infrared laser stimulation techniques with ..

Researchers have looked at a little-understood type of cell death called ferroptosis. They found ferroptosis occurs in tumor cells and plays a role in cancer immunity, suggesting the potential of targ..

For decades scientists have been searching for a way to watch a live broadcast of the brain. Neurons send and receive massive amounts of information — toe itches! Fire hot! Garbage smells! — at spee..

So far Denisovans were only known from a small collection of fossil fragments from Denisova Cave in Siberia. A research team now describes a 160,000-year-old hominin mandible from Xiahe in China. Usin..