Treating cancer by sticking cells in place

Future treatments for advanced cancer could work by sticking cancer cells in place and preventing their…

Get ready to look up in the night sky at all those meteor showers

The Perseids, the most popular meteor shower, will soon reach its peak. For best visibility, make…

What Curiosity's 10 years on Mars have taught us

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Ashwin Vasavada, the head scientist for the Curiosity Mars rover, about…

Mitochondrial DNA mutations linked to heart disease risk

Researchers report a surprising link between mitochondria, inflammation and gene mutations that may increase risk of…

Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey: Wide view of the early universe

New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show what may be among the earliest galaxies…

Study finds two protein pathways downregulated in postnatal heart

Researchers discovered two signaling pathways that are downregulated in human hearts after birth. Click…

Tracking nitrogen pollution

Tropical coastal ecosystems are among the most biodiverse areas on Earth. And they’re also on the…

How pathogenic gene variants lead to heart failure

Cardiomyopathy is not a uniform disease. Rather, individual genetic defects lead to heart failure in different…

Single-cell approaches and deep learning to map all stages of fruit fly embryo development

Using the fruit fly, scientists have constructed a complete and detailed single-cell map of embryo development.…

These baboons borrowed a third of their genes from their cousins

Genetic analyses of baboons in Kenya reveals that most of them carry traces of hybridization in…