If the length of our lives is a good measure of our well-being, the United States is in some trouble. The average life expectancy for an American born in 2021 was just shy of 76 years and 5 months — ...

The blood-brain-barrier is both a vital defence and a formidable obstacle. It protects the brain from toxic substances that circulate in the blood, but limits the delivery of drugs that could be used ...

Scientists may have spotted stars made of antimatter (SN: 6/5/21, p. 8). Finding antistars challenges a basic tenet of cosmology — that the vast majority of the universe’s antimatter, matter’s ...

CANYON COUNTRY, CA – The winners of the 2021 Protein Science Best Paper awards are Chelsea Vickers, from the School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and Ryan M ...