Obesity causes insulin resistance by increasing activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the release of the stress hormone norepinephrine, according to a new study.

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the ...

When active filaments are exposed to localized illumination, they accumulate into stable structures along the boundaries of ...

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

The detailed structure of a misfolded protein from a diseased deer could help explain why the disease hasn’t made the leap to humans.