Scientists have long searched for ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. Chief among these ...

Every now and then, researchers at the biggest tech companies drop a bombshell. There was the time Google said its latest quantum chip indicated multiple universes exist. Or when Anthropic gave its AI ...

Located just a few hours’ drive from the Canadian border, Missoula, Mont. is not known for sweltering temperatures. And yet heat waves are becoming more common in the mountainous region due to climate ...

Since the Trump administration froze $1.5 billion in National Institute of Health (NIH) funding, students, researchers and universities have scrambled to adjust. While the NIH announced a partial ...

New research on anesthesia has yielded important results about the physical basis of consciousness in the brain. For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: ...

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Madeleine May is an investigative producer at CBS News based in Washington, D.C. She previously covered politics for VICE News and reported on organized crime and corruption for OCCRP. She covers ...

In the world of biomedical research, one institution towers over the rest—the National Institutes of Health, or NIH. It can be argued that it’s largely because of this 138-year-old government agency—a ...

Imagine a sudden rustle in the tall grass. A ripple of alarm passes through the group of early humans who live together amid ancient, rugged terrain. In the center of the encampment, a three-year-old ...