It’s not just the cold and Christmas cookies. Here’s the biology of why winter makes people sleepier, hungrier, and even ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have shown that the IGFBP3 protein plays a relevant role in human lung development. The results of the study, which used organoids derived from embryonic lungs ...

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has ...

Saint Louis University’s Gift Body Program is committed to excellence in research and education. The study of human anatomy has long been and continues to be essential to training physicians, physical ...

Feel like it takes longer to recover from everything these days—whether it’s an injury or poor sleep? That’s the reality of what time is doing to our bodies. Researchers call our ability to ...

Talk to the local environmental officer about this; you could invite them to visit your school to make a presentation. This short film will be relevant for teaching the topic of the human body at ...

Hurricane Milton Delays Launch of Europa Clipper, and Science Nobel Awards Highlight AI A roundup of the science Nobels, the latest COVID updates and the Europa Clipper launch delay.

Nov. 7, 2024 — Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final ...

Researchers unveil the inner mechanisms of the most intricate and complex molecular machine in human biology. Scientists at ...

And, COP16 will tackle questions like who should profit from non-human DNA, and who is responsible ... and other stories from the week in science, including an archeological find of medieval ...

Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering ... Published proceedings record the presentations and discussions that take place at ...

A study trumpeting the value of applying rigorous standards to scientific research was retracted, in part because the authors didn’t follow their own advice. In the sprawling project, scientists ...