Small food protein signals teach immune cells to accept food. The finding helps explain how the body prevents food allergies.

Scientists have uncovered how brewer’s yeast developed its unusually tiny centromeres, the DNA regions that guide chromosome separation during cell division. By studying related yeast species, ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest of the body cast in supporting roles. A wave of new microbiome research is ...

Study uncovers key insights about how a new class of antiviral drugs works. Cryo-EM images showed the drugs bound to herpes simplex virus (HSV) protein at nearly atomic detail, while optical tweezers ...

Scientists have gotten an unprecedented look at how the human embryo implants in a uterus. They did this by creating very primitive, womb-like environments in the lab. "This is really important work ...

The 2026 Doomsday Clock has inched closer to midnight than ever before, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists stated on Tuesday, January 26. Alexandra Bell, the president and CEO of the nonprofit ...

To measure how bacterial communities shift between health and disease, the team developed a new metric called the Ecological ...

Developing a gene therapy typically takes years, but when Baby KJ was diagnosed with a deadly genetic condition, scientists had only months. What followed was a successful collaboration among ...

Timothy Weihs is charged with thinking about the unthinkable: the cataclysmic destructive force of a nuclear detonation and the lethality of chemical and biological weapons. Dark topics, indeed, but ...

NYU researchers have found a way to use light to control how microscopic particles assemble into crystals, effectively ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Penn State-led study reveals the hidden chain reaction that starts lightning, linking electrons, X-rays, and gamma rays. (CREDIT ...

Evelyn Valdez-Ward is executive director of ReclaimingSTEM Institute. Nic Bennett is a volunteer board member of Reclaiming STEM and People's Science Network. Robert N. Ulrich is the Associate ...