Scientists around the world are making new discoveries and breakthroughs in understanding illness every day. But turning these discoveries into improvements in human health is a difficult process.

Bones from Iraqi cave hint at violence and compassion in Neanderthals The bones of a Neanderthal from a cave in Iraq's Kurdistan region are offering evidence of both violence and compassion in the ...

Oct. 19, 2026 Scientists have uncovered an unexpected culprit behind sleep loss in Alzheimer’s disease: overactive immune cells in the brain. By temporarily removing these cells, researchers restored ...

The internet could be on the verge of a total meltdown. Yesterday, someone posted to a public forum that two major security flaws had been found in a programming language that undergirds the web. The ...

Computer science is the study and development of the protocols required for automated processing and manipulation of data. This includes, for example, creating algorithms for efficiently searching ...

Extreme heat is dangerous. Climate change is fueling more heat waves and extreme temperatures. Learn more about extreme heat impacts. Learning about climate change science and sharing your knowledge ...

Emergency crews scrambled on Saturday to restore power to tens of thousands of homes in Taiwan after Typhoon Champi's fierce winds battered the island, with the storm moving toward China and Japan. El ...

Researchers remotely disabled a vulnerable updater in the abandoned Time4Popcorn app, a fork of the Popcorn Time BitTorrent client, closing a security flaw that could have allowed attackers to execute ...

In this study, participants improved at copying an unfamiliar alphabet character even though they only practiced writing rotated versions of it. The experiments reveal that the motor system can refine ...

Purdue University’s College of Science is committed to the persistent pursuit of the mathematical and scientific knowledge that forms the very foundation of innovation. More than 350 tenure-track ...

Oct. 6, 2026 Scientists discovered that disrupting the chemical messages bacteria use to communicate can push dental plaque toward a healthier microbial balance. The approach could lead to new ...

Breaking down this year’s Nobel Prize–winning science, from switching brain cells on and off with light to catching cosmic neutrinos in Antarctic ice to building mirror-image molecules. Plus, a ...