Weissman was one of 77 signatories, all Nobel Prize winners, who sent an open letter on Dec. 9, 2024 to the U.S. Senate ...

Mary Roach encouraged the use of humor to break down barriers in medical discourse while promoting her new book “Replaceable ...

Scientists report that the naked mole rat’s age-defying superpower likely relates to a protein called cGAS (or cyclic guanosine monophosphate–adenosine monophosphate synthase), which plays a role in ...

If you stayed awake in science class as a kid, the payoff comes when you get a good laugh out of Freya McGhee’s jokes.

Kenneth Savage taught science for 55 years, inspiring generations and earning a Guinness World Records title for longest ...

Four years ago, a Reddit user went on r/MandelaEffect and asked a simple question: ‘Anyone else remember the seahorse emoji?’ ...

Scientists have discovered the brain’s hidden “off switch” for hunger, and it could revolutionize the fight against obesity.

The Maroon spoke with Shubin about how teaching at UChicago has prepared him to prioritize science communication for all ...

What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in the wild. The ...

A viral video circulating on social media shows a Southern California dentist who’s centered her practice around her support of President Donald Trump joking that she dials back the anesthetic for ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (Crnic Institute) at the University of Colorado Anschutz discovered important ...

It's a rare occurrence for scientists to witness sharks mating in the wild. It's even rarer to catch three leopard sharks—two males and one female—engaging in what amounts to a threesome in the wild ...