Category: 7. Science

EVANSTON, Ill. — A groundbreaking new study reveals that changes to the gut microbiome can change the way the brain works. 

Humans have the largest relative brain size of any primate, but…

Even with CRISPR and advanced sequencing, altering plant behavior remains labor-intensive. A new approach aims to reveal how gene expression is actually controlled.

What Was the First Edit?
Agriculture, from the outset, has depended on…

It was a busy year in Yellowstone National Park, with 2025 featuring 1,136 earthquakes, the formation of new geological features and millions of visitors — some of whom left without their hats.

Geologists and park scientists juggle a wide…

By Michael Allen 
 
For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white dwarf star. Using IXPE’s unique X-ray polarization capability, astronomers examined a star called the…

In a sprawling laboratory complex in Los Angeles, researchers are developing technologies that could allow future lunar citizens to live off the land.

As Vlada Stamenkovic tells it, the instruction he and his colleagues…

A population of free-floating planets is known from gravitational microlensing surveys. None have a directly measured mass, owing to a degeneracy with the distance, but the population statistics indicate that many are less massive than…

Compared to other primates, humans have remarkably large brains relative to their body sizes. The resultant high demands for glucose may have been supported by changes in the gut microbiota, which can influence host metabolism. In this study,…