How much does it matter where you are born, or whether you are heavy or light, if you are a house sparrow? Researcher Kenneth ...

Encouraged by these results, Dudin, Dey, Guichard, and Hamel launched a close collaboration. Three years later, their work has produced near-encyclopedic insight into hundreds of protist species and ...

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Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's ...

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

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New research from the laboratory of Scott Leiser, Ph.D., in the Molecular and Integrative Physiology Department at the University of Michigan Medical School, reveals how a single longevity-related ...

And while lifestyle choices still matter, the underlying cause isn’t willpower. It’s physiology.

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For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

Chemist Lee Cronin challenges AI doom and explains assembly theory, showing how complexity signals life, so you can judge ...