Extreme heat may be silently accelerating biological aging in older adults, adding months to cells before disease appears.

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Many everyday chemicals can impact your gut health and even male fertility, research shows. Proper food preparation, ...

New insights into a sophisticated process that protects sperm cells has revealed a mechanism, similar to an immune system, thwarts genetic chaos during the earliest stages of their development.

The protein that protects tardigrade DNA from radiation and mutagenic chemicals was thought to be harmless, but can in fact ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da Vinci's DNA.

Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most common and aggressive primary brain tumors in adults, carrying an extremely poor ...

Sleep is one of life’s most universal behaviors. Despite its ubiquity, it’s also one of the most mysterious. Humans spend ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic tangles overwhelm normal repair pathways, cells flip on a fast but error-prone ...

A child sits in a shopping cart and looks at a store display of potato chips and other snack items as someone pushes the cart along. Packets of chips are on display at a supermarket in Mumbai, India, ...