We are continually in an evolutionary arms race with bacteria. As we develop new antibiotics, they develop resistance, and so ...

A computer designed at Montana State University landed on the moon last spring as part of ongoing space exploration research.

Cortical Labs uses human brain cells attached to silicon chips to create biological computers that could offer energy ...

Scientists led by Botond Roska at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) and collaborators have identified genetic pathways and compounds capable of protecting cone ...

While humans often struggle to find a partner who is both physically attractive and a reliable co-parent, yeast may already have cracked the formula for the perfect match. When choosing mates, these ...

A new imaging approach is shedding light on one of cell biology’s most elusive questions: how lipids are organized and sorted within membranes.

Cortical Labs says the stunt points toward a new kind of low-power computing—and perhaps a new way to study neurological ...

Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom ...

Tiny particles from certain lab gloves look like microplastics, and they can contaminate samples, new study finds.

Two research teams at the University of Colorado Boulder are working on separate projects that could protect astronauts in ...

Scientists have discovered that cells can sense far beyond the surfaces they touch. While individual cancer cells can probe about 10 microns ahead by tugging on surrounding collagen fibers, clusters ...

Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi.