New research has found that the male-specific Y (chrY) chromosome can affect other cells in the body in addition to those related to reproduction.
Based on studies in the United States and Afghanistan, scientists recently published a paper showing that belief in a higher power is directly influenced by the keenness of a person’s implicit ability to perceive patterns.
Putting ideas out there so everyone knows them is very different, in practice, from actually getting people to do what you want, and The National Academies recently looked at some of the ways social science can get people to follow the recommendations of the rest of the sciences.
The National Academy of Medicine and American Public Health Association recently hosted a Covid-19 Conversation webinar in which panelists put forward the opinion that disease surveillance, testing, and contact tracing are some of the best public health tools available for managing the pandemic.
The discovery of stone tools in a cave near the Altlantic coast of Portugal may indicate humans reached westernmost Europe between 38,000 and 41,000 years ago, approximately 5,000 years sooner than previously thought and in a time when Neanderthals still lived there.
A new report from an international commission of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the U.K.’s Royal Society, cautions against permitting editing of the genome of embryos that will be used to produce a pregnancy.
New evidence uncovered in Laos may lend understanding to a possible connection between the end of the Green Sahara and a crippling megadrought that struck Southeast Asia between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago.
NASA’s Search and Rescue office is collaborating with a consortium of universities and other research organizations organized as SmartSat Cooperative Research Center (CRC) in order to improve on existing satellite-related technology that aids in search and rescue efforts around the world.
Researchers at Purdue University have discovered that a collection of electrons under extreme conditions can form quasiparticles called "anyons," which have unique "memory" properties and could advance quantum computing.
The expansion of the Panama and Suez canals has increased the number of invasive, non-native fish species on the waterways, according to a new study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and the Leibnitz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT).
Scientists hope new methods can mitigate the chronic shortage of personal protective equipment
Fossil fuels are no longer the top producer of sulphur into the environment, a new study found.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) invest over $1 billion each year into biomedical development efforts by small businesses across the country, and has now created an interactive mapping tool to help people to understand the impact of that funding.
Renowned physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the Higgs boson, once remarked that he could not get a job in modern academia because he wouldn’t be considered productive enough. After all, it took 48 years for the existence of the Higgs boson to be accepted by the scientific community.
Oceans absorb much of the carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, but that may cause fish to be smaller in the future, researchers from the University of Connecticut and other institutions discovered.
UMass researchers use Cyro-EM microscopy to understand ribosome’s two stages of protein synthesis
Mental stress and anger may have clinical implications for patients with heart failure according to a new report published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure.
A new study by Boston University’s School of Public Health (BUSPH) indicates that nearly half (48 percent) of adolescents ages 12-18 have been stalked or harassed during a relationship, and 42 percent have done the stalking or harassing.
Face masks are a hot topic lately, with the Centers for Disease Control recommending that people wear face masks when outside their homes and when unable to keep a minimum of 6 feet distance between themselves and others to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
A recently published study may have uncovered how dogs, famous for their sense of smell and direction, can find their way home over many miles.