Nov. 29, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Nov. 26 (UPI) --More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter. Scientists have been able to indirectly observe dark ...

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The blood-brain barrier is a natural membrane that protects your brain from ...

You might even know that exercise increases the production of a protein that supports the function, growth, and survival of brain cells. But what you probably don’t know is that a study published in ...

Valdemar Brimnes Ingemann Johansen's PhD studies are funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research. This article was commissioned as part of a partnership collaboration ...

Differences between men and women in intelligence and behaviour have been proposed and disputed for decades. Now, a growing body of scientific evidence shows hundreds of genes act differently in the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — A Caddo Magnet High School student is bringing international recognition to northwest Louisiana after earning first place at the world’s largest pre-college science competition. Maya ...

Pound-for-pound, the human brain is the body’s most metabolically costly organ, consuming 20% of our energy and accounting for an outsize portion of our anatomy compared with most other animals.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have uncovered new types of organics in icy geysers spouting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, bolstering the likelihood that the ocean world may harbor conditions ...

A new analysis of archival Cassini spacecraft data has definitively confirmed that organic molecules detected in the icy plumes emanating from Saturn’s moon Enceladus originate directly from its ...

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This challenges the idea that sleep is solely brain-driven, instead suggesting it ...