The wrinkly rodent barely seems to age and appears almost impervious to cancer, heart disease, and mental decline. Can these astounding abilities be adapted for humans?

Genuine attention is not a single-minded focus but the ability to bend the path of our thoughts back to our intended subject, ...

When Jared Snow goes to the hospital, he’s usually in serious pain, which he hopes will be assuaged soon. But living with sickle cell disease as a Black man in America often tests this hope.

For about six months, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called boxwork, low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy ...

In this short video I invite you to play a quick game of What’s Under My Microscope with me. We go through three rounds from easy to hard, each one showing a super close up of an everyday object ...

David Joffe receives funding from NASA through a grant from the Georgia Space Grant Consortium. Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer ...

One of the most common claims in traditional gardening lore is that weeds only grow in poor soil. Improve the fertility of your plot, and the weeds will disappear. If true, this simple trick could ...

Vayujeet Gokhale, an astronomy professor at Truman State University in Missouri, poses near a light that causes excessive glare. On the podcast Up From Dust, he explains how better fixtures and bulbs ...

An international group of literacy education experts are calling on teachers and parents to adopt a new framework for teaching critical consciousness in children through the way they learn to view the ...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic disease that affects an increasing number of children and adults. The skin is dry and irritated, and the itching can be so severe that it interferes with sleep and ...

In the 1980s, UCLA cellular biologist Leonard Rome noticed odd, barrel-shaped structures present in almost all cells. The hollow particles were filled with RNA and a handful of proteins. Naming them ...