Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how molecular "traffic controllers" in cells influence aging and cellular senescence—a state where cells stop dividing but remain metabolically active.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Police are investigating possible ties between Saturday’s shooting at Brown University and Monday’s slaying of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the ...

Two concepts haunt modern science like unsolved riddles. Information—the currency of the digital age, the stuff of genes and neurons, perhaps the fabric of reality itself. And consciousness—the inner ...

Two days after the Brown University shooting, MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was gunned down at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. The 47-year-old was a renowned professor of nuclear science and ...

In 2022, neuroscientists at the University of Oxford published a study in Brain Communications that links tinnitus and sleep. They found that slow-wave activity in deep sleep might suppress the brain ...

Cats are popular pets. Last week my college-aged son resumed his annual campaign to get him a kitten. We finally caved. The Shepherd household is now the proud owner of a cute kitten named Nova. We ...

When the Mojo language first appeared, it was promoted as being the best of two worlds, bringing the ease of use and clear syntax of Python, along with the speed and memory safety of Rust. For some ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Caroline Fraser, the author of “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in ...

Probably the most gripping, memorable, eye-opening book I’ve read in months is Seth Harp’s “The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces.” It’s gripping because it’s a ...

“Real Time” host Bill Maher asked an internet culture researcher Friday about memes to understand how people get “inspired to kill.” Memes, or “historical documents” with various interpretations, were ...

When most people hear “exercise,” they think about muscles, cardio, or maybe squeezing into last year’s jeans. But movement is much more than a way to change your body. In fact, it is one of the most ...