We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
Best practices, including checking public E. coli reports and keeping your head above water can keep you safe while swimming.
Scientist Saul Justine Newman debunks high-profile longevity research and antiaging “medicine” in a new book.
The practice of freediving is teaching physiologists how humans stretch their physical and mental limits, which in turn may improve treatments for lung and heart ailments.
DNA can voyage along intercellular highways called tunneling nanotubes. It’s a phenomenon that could potentially spread tumor DNA to healthy cells.
The remains of at least 37 people in an ancient stone 'jar' in northeastern Laos suggest that thousands similar jars were used in burials.
States with abortion bans are trending away from evidence-based miscarriage treatment that includes mifepristone, compared with states without bans.
British chef Mike Keen will ski across Greenland eating only fermented seal. Researchers will study how the Inuit diet shapes gut health.
A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive dentistry.
Scientists still don’t know why Andes hantavirus is the only one shown to spread from person to person.
