Recess quality, not just the amount of time spent away from the classroom, plays a major role in whether children experience the full physical, mental and social-emotional benefits of recess, a new study...

For the first time, scientists have examined how the three-dimensional (3D) structure of a patient’s genome can contribute to bladder cancer and pediatric brain tumors, according to a pair of Northwestern...

Studies of the microbiome in the human gut focus mainly on bacteria. Other microbes that are also present in the gut—viruses, protists, archaea and fungi—have been largely overlooked. New research...

The brain’s neural activity is irregular, changing from one moment to the next. To date, this apparent “noise” has been thought to be due to random natural variations or measurement...