Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

Researchers at the University of Delaware have transformed discarded corn cobs and other agricultural byproducts into high performance biochar filters ...

In one of the hottest places on the planet, a modest desert shrub has quietly rewritten what scientists thought plants could ...

A class of ultrasmall fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles developed at Cornell is showing an unexpected ability to ...

For most people, the magnifying-glass-shaped structure at Huairou Science City in Beijing is a high-end but inaccessible ...

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...

A global catalog shows how creatures across the tree of life balance rigidity with flexibility in remarkably consistent ways ...

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...

For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...