Analysis of a Welsh program offering live-attenuated shingles vaccines to people born after a certain date showed a 20 percent relative drop in dementia risk.  [...]

A miso test on the International Space Station shows fermenting food is not only possible in space, it adds nuttier notes to the Japanese condiment.  [...]

The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.  [...]

A phenomenon called liquefaction, which causes the ground to slump like quicksand, led to significant damage after the Myanmar earthquake. The risk of aftershock remains high.  [...]

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

Charge-parity violation is thought to explain why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe. Scientists just spotted it in a new place.  [...]

Mandimycin, which targets a different essential fungi cell resource than other antifungal drugs, should harm other cell types as collateral — but doesn’t.  [...]

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

Cement manufacture is a huge carbon emitter. A by-product of splitting seawater might make the process more environmentally friendly.  [...]

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.  [...]

A new set of artificial intelligence models could make protein sequencing even more powerful for better understanding cell biology and diseases.  [...]

Editor in chief Nancy Shute traces the history of nuclear weapons, from the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 to the renewed interest in explosive tests today.  [...]

On display Museum experts are exploring how to bring the science dioramas of yore into the 21st century, while ensuring scientific accuracy and acknowledging past biases, [...]

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake was powerful, shallow and in a heavily populated region with vulnerable buildings.

Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?  [...]

Controlled fusion, solar sails or ion engines could someday help spaceships travel between star systems.

Majorana qubits could be error resistant. But after a contentious talk at the Global Physics Summit, scientists aren’t convinced Microsoft has them.  [...]

In a small study, mice given fecal transplants from elite cyclists and soccer players had higher levels of glycogen, a key energy source.  [...]

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.  [...]