For the average person, living at high altitude—where oxygen is sparser than at sea level—can have health benefits ranging ...

The team is now focused on understanding how genetic factors influence lipid profiles and what role they play in metabolic diseases.

A groundbreaking study has revealed a surprising biochemical connection between plant immune responses and human neurological health. Researchers have discovered that the metabolic pathways regulating ...

Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain all life, an ability that has captured the ...

Fluctuations in ancient Earth’s environment might have propelled the chemical complexity that laid the foundation for life.

New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory ...

Feel like your metabolism, heart, skin or muscles suddenly just aren't the same as they used to be? This might be why.

Scientists explore Lost City, in the Atlantic, where chemical reactions in hydrothermal vents could explain the origin of ...

These curious molecules are both positively and negatively charged at the same time; the word “zwitter” in German means “hybrid” or “hermaphrodite”. Their unusual nature affords zwitterions a ...

Is it possible to tile a surface with a single shape in such a way that the pattern never repeats itself? In 2022, a mathematical solution to this 'Einstein problem' was discovered for the first time.

Vandenberg Space Force Base, in coordination with NASA, is set to provide a comprehensive mission overview for the eagerly ...