New system tracks rats underground to curb disease and learn what they’re up to when nobody’s watching.

Scientists call for experiments with MDMA to explore the drug’s potential therapeutic benefits.

Children with the ε2ε4 genotype have 5 percent smaller hippocampus, an area of the brain area that plays a role in memory.

A psychologist explains the foundations of prejudice in American police forces and how departments can start addressing it.

Circadian rhythms and 24 hour days contribute to difficulties adjusting to new time zones.

Grouping kids based on physical maturity rather than simply date of birth is called bio-banding and can make late bloomers shine, and early bloomers succeed in the long run.

The planet experiences either constant daylight or triple sunrises and sunsets depending on the seasons, which last longer than a human lifetime

Instead of making our living environments as sterile as possible, we should be designing our homes for us and our microbial roommates.

Phobos and Deimos look like asteroids, but a new study suggests they may be the sole survivors of a giant impact that produced many moons no longer in orbit.

New study demonstrates the growing risk of an unregulated market.

A member of German soccer’s medical team outlines the science behind caring for some of the world’s most elite players.

Political scientists are using neuroimaging to look directly at voters’ brain activity. Here’s what that research can tell us about the 2016 election.

A Brigham and Women’s Hospital study has found evidence that MR imaging should be done both while women are lying face-down and face-up.

If you found life on Mars, would you recognize it?

A massive surveillance program monitors virus spread in wild birds from coast to coast.

The mouse study joins a growing set of research that links the gut microbiome to the brain.

Surveillance and research is key after the first-time discovery of a bacteria carrying the mcr-1 gene – a gene that makes the last-line antibiotic colistin useless against them – in the United States.

Primatologists want the public to know more about Japanese macaques, so they’re writing a book to show off the monkeys’ sometimes quirky behavior.

The 700,000-year-old fossilized remains discovered on the isolated Indonesian island of Flores appear to be ancestors of Homo floresiensis.

A terrorism expert and psychologist explains what sets people onto the path of extremism.