New psychoactive substances, originally developed as potential analgesics but abandoned due to adverse side effects, may ...

A new Dartmouth study opens new avenues for understanding—and potentially manipulating—how cells decide to live or die.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. The authors' approach to use genetic code expansion to tag two ALS proteins associated with stress granules has ...

Dopamine neurons in a part of the brain called the midbrain may, with aging, be increasingly susceptible to a vicious spiral ...

Asteroid Bennu, a dark rubble pile roughly the height of the Empire State Building, has turned out to be a chemical treasure ...

A new review highlights five major ways microplastics can harm the brain, raising concerns that they may worsen ...

Quantum physics is usually associated with particle colliders and vacuum chambers, not with the proteins quietly shuttling ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford and their collaborators have demonstrated that simple, rapid, and inexpensive tests can detect deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups—contaminants that have ...