Cancer immunotherapy drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors take the brakes off the body’s immune system, allowing it to find and attack cancer cells. One such checkpoint protein, programmed cell ...

Black holes continue to captivate scientists: they are purely gravitational objects, remarkably simple, yet capable of hiding ...

Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil ...

A new international study shows that simply replacing regular bread with a specially formulated oat β-glucan-enriched bread does not significantly improve long-term blood sugar control in individuals ...

Unfortunately for those who consider 2022’s The Northman an underrated gem, its blood-soaked portrayal of Viking life may not be entirely accurate, even without the supernatural elements. Relics ...

A meta-analysis of 226 studies involving 57,000-plus participants suggests the "autism lacks empathy" narrative is largely ...

A) Two-photon image of a basal dendrite of L2/3 neuron loaded with Alexa 594. In this example, the spine is ~40 μm below the surface of the slice. Scale bar, 2 μm. (B) Voltage-clamp traces ...

Scientists suggest social spiders are more about going with the flow than sticking to a role, after new research challenges the idea of fixed personalities. New research led by the University of ...