National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...

A TikTok video of a novel, ancient multiplication method has gone viral. While the user, jesslouisec, calls the method Japanese multiplication and some mathematicians say it’s “Vedic multiplying,” its ...

Springer Nature is a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Because small numbers of highly cited articles can have outsized influence on certain citation measures ...

We developed an optogenetic tool based on tetanus neurotoxin — a protease that cleaves the synaptic vesicle fusion protein VAMP2 to inhibit neurotransmitter release. We show that this light-controlled ...

The endocrine system is a network of glands and organs that uses chemical messengers called hormones to regulate metabolism, growth, reproduction, heart rate, blood pressure, and sleep-wake cycles.

Donald Trump called off a new wave of strikes on Iran because the “perimeters of a deal” had been agreed. In a garbled post on social media, the American president claimed that the agreement would ...