Scientists at Stanford Medicine have discovered a treatment that can reverse cartilage loss in aging joints and even prevent arthritis after knee injuries. By blocking a protein linked to aging, the ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...

For a long time, the study of the brain has largely focused on neuronal cells. However, neurons develop and interact closely together in space and time with ...

If you’ve ever spent time around horses—or perhaps even if you haven’t—you may have heard a strange but true fact: horses can ...

A dog was abandoned near a cemetery in Yonkers with a “deeply infected and painful” laceration to its throat, requiring a two ...

Over the past year, scientists have searched brain tissue, arteries and even joints for the presence of microplastics. The tiny particles, they have found, are ubiquitous in the human body - littering ...

Irukandji jellyfish deliver one of the most painful possible stings. Learn what the experts say about the dreaded Irukandji ...

Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.

A new mouse study suggests that "beige" fat surrounding blood vessels can send calming signals to the arteries—revealing an ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

In rare cases, soft tissue and even dinosaur skin has been found to survive the fossilisation process. Rapid burial of these ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...