Location matters: Catches from highly industrialized areas are far more polluted than those in the West Pacific.

Largest review of research to date shows clear connection between PBDEs and decreased intelligence.

Older adults with moderate regular alcohol intake found more likely to live to 85 without dementia.

UCLA research is helping doctors detect more subtle autistic symptoms.

How did we create more tons of plastic than there are people on Earth?

A paradigm-shifting hypothesis could reshape our idea about the origin of life.

$21.6M awarded to create a 'brain modem' that can read and write to neurons, laying foundation for new therapies.

Understanding how hair grows in coordination across our bodies may provide the key to controlling it.

Neuroscientists alleviate or reverse social withdrawal and helplessness behavior in a new study.

Don't say climate change — 'renewable energy' is the phrase that gets things done, study finds.

Fatty food made mice double their weight — unless they lacked a sense of smell.

Brain-injured mice perform as well as normal mice on memory tests after treatment.