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Despite our hopes for technological ways to bridge connections between older adults and social partners, phone and digital contact cannot alleviate loneliness in the same...

The world’s most sensitive dark matter detector still hasn’t found evidence of weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, but the search continues.

It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries.

Husniye Kantarci was part of a team that discovered the role of glial cells in controlling neural development, learning and numerous diseases.

Two of our key defenses against viruses have persisted for billions of years, arising before complex life.

A new study looks at metabolic processes in the previously understudied microbes called Asgard archaea in the soils of freshwater wetlands.

Professor of molecular biosciences David Hoffmann helped develop a new way to fingerprint a type of forever chemical.

The work reveals what planets outside our solar system are made of.

Protein large language models identify ways to make antibiotics better at targeting dangerous bacteria, without being toxic to humans.

Parrotfishes help corals grow and survive, grazing on what can otherwise smother corals. But there are trade-offs.