How flu viruses enter cells has been directly observed thanks to a new microscopy technique with the potential to revolutionize research on membrane biology, virus–host interactions and drug discovery ...

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

A research team led by McGill University has taken a close look at a long-standing idea about Parkinson’s disease and found it needs revision. Working with colleagues at the Douglas Research Centre, ...

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

A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for ...

Science moves forward on data. We all know this. But bad data leads science down dead ends. It wastes time. It wastes money.

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

Scientists mapped where drugs bind inside the body, cell by cell, to better understand benefits and side effects.

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 ...

Nonlinear dendritic integration in single presubicular neurons provides a mechanism for combining vestibular-based head-direction signals and visual landmark signals to anchor the brain’s internal ...