Most of us now live largely inside, yet we still talk about “fresh air” as if it only exists outdoors. The reality is that ...

Mechanical ventilation saves lives, but the airflow it produces inside an intubated airway can also shape conditions linked ...

Researchers have uncovered that the body uses different molecular systems to sense cold in the skin versus internal organs.

It has been a year in which technological progress posed existential questions to our species previously reserved for sci-fi, ...

Researchers studying the atmosphere of India's busiest cities have uncovered widespread inhalable microplastics.

A study links long-term PM2.5 air pollution to higher levels of anti-nuclear antibodies, early warning signs of autoimmune ...

The human and economic costs of Iran’s poor air quality are an indictment of the Islamic Republic’s corrupt governance.

NYU Langone researchers found that blocking a single protein in the body can trigger a form of self-destruction in lung ...

Researchers are discovering that microscopic plastics are not only polluting the environment but also accumulating inside the ...

Like many emerging technologies, this one can improve our lives, make us miserable or both. Nobody knows yet which it will be ...

Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus about one-tenth as wide as a human hair while making sure the all-important ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ancestry, according to a study published in Nature Communications. Researchers ...