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They came for the game and stayed for something less obvious: clearer thinking. A 45-minute session of tag rugby—warm-up...

Imagine learning that one tiny sugar molecule on the surface of your red blood cells nudges your diabetes risk ever so s...

Think collagen is a miracle in a jar? Think again. Headlines have loved to promise firmer skin, pain-free knees and fast...

Children who grow up poor are not only missing toys and tutoring. Their cells carry a different story. Fast. Relentless....

Imagine a string of faint galaxies laid out like a necklace in the dark—except the beads lack the invisible glue we've l...

A tiny drama unfolded beneath the lens: immune cells edging closer, then slowly swallowing live melanoma cells whole. A ...

Imagine reaching for a probiotic capsule and, along with your morning coffee, nudging the chemistry of your brain toward...

They brought him back from the brink. A single operating room, a donor who had lived with HIV, and a 56-year-old recipie...

Beneath the chop of waves and the routine of shipping lanes, Beijing says an odd kind of intelligence operation is unfol...

Imagine redesigning a seasonal vaccine in weeks instead of months. That possibility is what has pushed Moderna’s first m...

What if your morning coffee could warm a house? South Korean researchers have built a machine that does something close ...

A 4.8‑meter dome mirror dangling from a 75‑meter tower might look like a movie prop. In reality it was the spine of a bo...

Everyone knows cutting back on sugar is supposed to be a health win. Teeth thank you. Waistlines often do, too. But a sm...

It began in tooth enamel—tiny genetic traces preserved for millennia that suddenly make a prehistoric mystery click into...

A single contract can change how we approach Mars. That’s the thought hanging over this latest decision from NASA: a pri...

Imagine a rover that thinks on the move and covers ground like a desert courier. That’s the image engineers at JPL are c...

You go in for a routine eye exam and walk out with a prescription — or, perhaps one day, with a warning. It sounds like ...

Ever noticed how a vigorous lap leaves you calm and oddly powerful at the same time? It turns out the pool may be doing ...

Imagine a single transistor that fires like a brain cell when chilled to nearly absolute zero. Strange? Yes. Useful? Ver...

Imagine a speck so small it vanishes beneath a fingertip, yet it keeps the memory of a cosmic blow. That speck, a grain ...