Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Catherine Whittington is launching a new project to develop laboratory models for the study of uterine fibroids, and before work had even begun, WPI students had already played a critical role.

Finding new species in unassuming settings brings light to further exploration and conservation efforts to preserve the unique diversity in groundwater environments

Bees may be relying on your lawn for their next meal, according to a new study from the University of Georgia.

We usually think of bodily sensations as information the brain receives. What if the way we attend to those sensations can feed back and change the biological response itself?

Attention is already known to shape how bodily sensations are perceived. Focusing away from pain or itch, for example, can make these sensations feel less intense. A new study from the lab of Dr. Liron Rozenkrantz at Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, published today in Nature Human Behaviour, shows that attention can also influence the body’s inflammatory response.

Researchers have discovered a new genus and species of underground earthworm eel living beneath the Indo-Gangetic Plain in Bihar, northern India. The small, colourless creature, named Gangaichthys indonepalicus, is the first subterranean fish to be recorded from the Gangetic Basin.