In cell culture labs around the world, human brain organoids live out their short lives as neural guinea pigs, testing the effects of diseases, toxins, and new pharmaceuticals. But they may soon be on ...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is entering a period of profound transformation, driven by three powerful megatrends: demographic, climate, and technological change. In MENA, their ...

Microglia are the brain’s most abundant immune cells. They protect against invading threats, remove damaged neurons and help shape neural circuits as the brain develops. Scientists at Columbia’s ...

Scientists have reconstructed the complete genome of a real person, with full sets of chromosomes from each parent, a ...

Understanding how heart muscle cells stop dividing and acquire the characteristics needed to sustain lifelong cardiac ...

Intelligence is an energetically expensive luxury. And a new study in Science shows meat has never been the main fuel source ...

A new study led by a Duke University scientist overturns a long-held idea about how primates, including humans, came to have ...

Are we doomed if we have a bright child? No, we simply have to pay closer attention to their particular ways of navigating ...

With four launches and nine spacewalks under his belt, Fincke leaves NASA as the fourth-most-flown astronaut at the space agency. NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Russian cosmonauts returned to ...