A new study published in PLOS ONE found some intriguing statistical links between bacteria on your tongue and how quickly we process information.

The time-keeping offered by your watch or phone may be good enough for day-to-day life, but scientists are much more ambitious in terms of precision, and use atomic clocks to measure slices of time as ...

You've probably heard a bit about ultra-processed foods by now, and if so, you likely know they're not the healthiest things you can eat. In light of all the concerning associations scientists are ...

A gut pathogen that causes diarrhea and vomiting is morphing into a dangerous and difficult-to-treat sexually transmitted infection (STI).

While scientists are still continually learning what causes autism, there's already considerable evidence linking environmental exposures to the condition, in addition to genetic factors.

For now, scientists have a newly identified structure to investigate. Following proteins through these tiny channels could help answer a much larger question: when potentially har ...

During the Second World War, the British Royal Navy experimented with the idea of using ice reinforced with wood pulp to build an aircraft carrier. The composite material, known as Pykrete, was ...

The drugs used to induce general anesthesia differed depending on the species, but even still, consistent patterns turned up in their brain activity.

We can often understand more about the future by looking into the past – and in the case of a new study published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, almost 240,000 years into the history of the ...

Scientists have discovered a distinct change in the brains of people with long COVID that might explain some of the illness's most debilitating symptoms.

"By introducing microorganisms into the gut of germ-free mice, we have conclusively demonstrated that gut colonization of microbiota is a prerequisite for feces to float," the aut ...

Decaffeinated coffee might not come with the same buzz, but it may offer an advantage to the brain that the caffeinated version does not.