Caltech researchers demonstrated a new method to use light to control active matter—a kind of material made up of individual ...
Scientists discovered years ago that the hypothalamus—which helps to manage body temperature, hunger, sex drive, sleep and more—includes neurons that express the protein opsin 3 (OPN3). Far less clear ...
A study published Thursday by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention suggests bird flu infections in humans are being ...
Breakthrough study in Nature Materials reveals DNA nanorafts reshape synthetic cells for controlled membrane dynamics and ...
Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...
Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color, and skin tone, but they don't tell the entire ...
When Xiao Wang applied to faculty jobs, many of the institutions where she interviewed thought her research proposal - to ...
Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Rice University bioengineers have ...
Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I'm starting to ...
Grech, J. (2025) Psychological Responses after Failing an Important Exam: An IPA Study. Psychology, 16, 149-169. doi: 10.4236 ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in 2022, around 608,000 people died from malaria, a ...
Synthetic cells that look just like natural cells but are chemically reversed could outcompete other living organisms − with ...