Non-monogamy and colony inheritance are the leading causes of conflict among termites, but these social cockroaches prove you don't always need a big brain to get to the bottom of even the curliest of ...

"Smartphones and streaming services seem likely culprits" in a catastrophic loss of life skills among younger Americans, said John Burn-Murdoch in the Financial Times. Troubling new data from the ...

Scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) may have discovered a cause of aging in the brain. The culprit is a protein called ferritin light chain 1 (FTL1), described as an ...

Airbus has long been known for its forward-thinking approach to avionics, and nowhere is that more evident than in the A320neo family. Introduced in 2016, the “neo” — for “new engine option” — wasn’t ...

The human brain has long been celebrated as the pinnacle of cognitive evolution, but the animal kingdom harbors remarkable neural architectures that rival our own in complexity and specialization.

Could woodpecker skulls hold the secret to mitigating brain damage in humans? Since the 1970s, scientists have asked this question, researching the industrious bird's skull and brain in a bid to ...

Research is ongoing about what components contribute to healthier brains as people age. Recent research identified some unique brain features of ‘superagers,’ people at least 80 years old who perform ...

Some people’s brains are so much younger than their chronological age, they could be hiding the secrets to treating dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases. Known as “superagers,” these ...

“Plink!” (“Donk”? “Plonk”?) Spell it however you like: It’s the sound of sweet, sweet dopamine hitting your system—the sound effect that Microsoft’s Xbox gaming ecosystem has been using, for twenty ...

Long-term support release, now available in a release candidate, brings features ranging from stable values and structured concurrency to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Some octogenarians have exceptionally sharp memories, even sharper than people who are decades ...