A new study suggests that individuals in naked mole-rat colonies are assigned specific roles, including digging, garbage ...

The naked mole rat ( Heterocephalus glaber ), native to the Horn of Africa and parts of Kenya, has drawn attention from ...

The longevity of naked mole rats may partly be due to them having a variant of a key protein that boosts DNA repair – a ...

We expel carbon dioxide as waste. Naked mole rats bathe their brains in it to prevent seizures. The unique animals thrive underground but cannot handle the lack of carbon dioxide above.

Poonkulali Thangavelu has worked 10+ years as a writer and editor covering investment, personal finance, and mortgage-related topics. Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and fact-checker. She holds ...

Knowing how many calories you burned on a run isn’t required. Calorie-counting can foster a complicated—and sometimes unhealthy—relationship with food and exercise. When you go for a run, you know you ...

Richard Robson was struck by an idea in 1989. Decades later, his story shows the importance of fundamental science.

A ‘quantum telephone’ connecting atomic nuclei could make practical quantum computers easier to build and use.

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

Molarity is the concentration of a solution in terms of the number of moles of the solute in 1 dm 3 (1 liter) of the solution. What are the units of molarity? The units of molarity are M or mol/L. A 1 ...

The team genetically engineered fruit flies to make naked mole rat cGAS and found that they lived 70 days—10 days longer than ...