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Many low-income countries have turned to mass food fortification programs to address nutrient deficiencies in their populations but lack the resources to monitor the amounts in food products. Now an affordable, reliable paper-based sensor that works with a cellphone app could help.

Babies seek to understand the world around them and learn many new things every day. Unexpected events – for example a game of peek-a-boo – provide researchers with the unique opportunity to understand infants’ learning processes.

A new study has identified benefits of extended estrogen exposure and longer-term hormone therapy in combating cognitive decline

Scientists have developed a line of mice in which the mouse version of the Alzheimer's-associated MAPT gene has been fully replaced by the human version of the gene.

Scientists have assembled a set of genetic sequences that enable the reference genome to better reflect global genetic diversity.

Scientists have found that aҫaí berry extracts can reduce malaria parasites in the blood and prolong the survival of infected mice.

Two million years of eating meat and cooked food may have helped humans shift further from other great apes on the evolutionary tree. The evidence is in our saliva.

Scientists have published the first genome of the invasive Spotted Lanternfly from a single caught-in-the-wild specimen.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a Michigan State University researcher a $2.1 million, five-year grant to search vast databases of existing drugs in the hope that some could be adapted to treat orphan diseases.

Researchers have challenged the common assumption that polystyrene persists in the environment for millennia, with the finding that sunlight can break down polystyrene over a much shorter time scale, from decades to centuries.