A simple brain-training program that sharpens how quickly older adults process visual information may have a surprisingly powerful long-term payoff. In a major 20-year study of adults 65 and older, ...

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Scientists at Durham University, working in partnership with Jagiellonian University in Poland, have developed a new ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

A Georgia-based artist recently drew a picture of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, and it's quite literally worth a thousand words − or maybe even a few thousand. With over a million ...

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire nominated twice to lead the agency, may draw some lessons from the tenure of another NASA leader in the 1990s. By Kenneth Chang After 11 months of tumult and downsizing ...

The last time I wrote an article on Structure Therapeutics Inc. (GPCR) it was in a Seeking Alpha article entitled "Structure Therapeutics: Potential To Have Best-In-class GLP-1 Agonist For Obesity ...

Colibactin is a powerful toxin produced by Escherichia coli and other bacteria living in the human gut. This highly unstable bacterial product causes mutations in DNA that have been linked to ...

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the foundation ...