Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

The tobacco industry is getting ready for the final showdown as South Africa's Tobacco Bill heads into its last rounds, pulling out its well-worn talking points on illicit trade and high taxes. We ...

Many current job descriptions can sound optimistic, vague, or buzzword-heavy, especially with the increasing use of AI-generated, cookie-cutter text. Physician assistant job descriptions are no ...

A study introduces a scalable 2D human neuron platform to probe how brain-like rhythms emerge and how specific drugs reshape them, aiding epilepsy and autism research.

Environmental exposure to thousands of synthetic chemicals poses a growing challenge for public health, largely because their biological effects are complex, multiscale, and poorly characterized. This ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for an artificial-intelligence program called AlphaFold2. For decades, scientists had struggled to understand how ...

Heart disease doesn't wait—in India, it often knocks on the door a decade sooner, thanks to the relentless nature of modern living, packed with long workdays and inadequate sleep. The TOI Cardio ...

New research shows that parents who read to their 6- to 8-year-olds nightly boost their children’s creativity and empathy.

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday is likely to be a test run of the message that Republicans ...