Billions of years ago, a rock crack exuding heat could have brought different biomolecules together to kickstart protein ...

Scientists have pioneered a new way to monitor sodium levels in the blood—without drawing a single drop. By combining terahertz radiation and optoacoustic detection, they created a non-invasive system ...

Inflammaging might not be a universal feature of ageing after all. Instead, it could be a byproduct of how we live in modern ...

In a new study, men who followed a specific whole-foods diet reversed their biological age by up to nine years. The secret ...

The startup Gigablue announced with fanfare this year that it reached a historic milestone: selling 200,000 carbon credits to fund what it describes as a groundbreaking technology in the fight against ...

Microplastics research faces standardization challenges as viral headlines about "plastic in your brain" overshadow ...

In the frozen reaches of the planet—glaciers, mountaintops, and icy groundwater—scientists have uncovered strange ...

Chinese scientists studying mitten crabs have found microplastics inside of them.  What's happening? A 21-day ...

Stronger regulations, corporate accountability, and funding for more research are all critical. Researchers make disturbing ...

In terms of quantity, the stool samples contained, on average, 20 particles of plastic, ranging in size from 50 to 500 micrometers. (For comparison, a human hair is about 100 micrometers thick.) ...

For decades, scientists have identified chronic low-level inflammation – called “inflammaging” – as one of the primary ...