The OTOF gene encodes otoferlin, a protein that plays a critical role in hearing. It helps transmit sound signals from the ...

Poveglia is a layered time capsule of tragedy. It was once a bustling community which was turned into a quarantine zone, then into a psychiatric hospital, then fell into ruin. And while it’s often ...

In a new study, participants from China, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom consistently rated men with low-to-moderate body ...

One answer lies in something Casasanto and his team call “left-handed exceptionalism.” Lefties make up just about 10% of the ...

With lessons learned from their first attempt, Kyoto University scientists hope a second CubeSat made of magnolia will spark ...

Over the last fifty years, jet fuel has accounted for more than half of all U.S. military energy use. Scaling back the ...

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In what definitely wasn’t on our list of expectations for this year, researchers used a method called transcranial random ...

Ben Seal is a freelance journalist based in Philadelphia who writes about our relationships with one another and the world ...

Credit: Pixabay. Tucked away in the shaded corner of a community garden in New Haven, Connecticut, a beehive awaits. Seven ...

In what has become a landmark comparison of sports and life expectancy, researchers from the Copenhagen City Heart Study found that playing tennis may add nearly a decade (9.7 years) to one’s lifespan ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...