Early life adversity such as abuse or neglect leads to long-term poorer physical and mental health due to increased mitochondrial respiratory capacity and energy production reacting to cellular stress, a potential biological explanation for the mental and physical impacts of poverty and trauma

The meteorite which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also created an underground environment suited to supporting new life, which persisted for at least eight million years

Physicists Discover How Slime Mold 'Makes Decisions' Without a Brain

Early-life determinants of cardiometabolic outcomes and accelerated biological ageing in Colombia

Scientists have developed a new “transcriptomic clock” that measures biological age by analyzing gene activity, can estimate a person’s chronological age, but also expected mortality risk

How to build a virtual cell and biology scaling laws

Researchers identified a new way to predict shape changes in developing tissue and organs, using cells' energy metabolism to predict shape changes in mouse eyes, chicken lungs…

Transcriptional programs diverge in aging mouse and human skeletal muscle

Blue period - features of senescence 30 years after beta-galactosidase

Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished