Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed Nicheformer, the first ...

Plant a seed and, if the conditions are right, the seed grows. The process seems simple enough at first glance and is something many of us may feel like we learned in elementary school.

The idea scientists might be able to 'rewire' our memory is one that has long fascinated everyone from philosophers to movie ...

But new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research reveals planarian stem cells ignore their nearest neighbors and instead respond to signals farther away in the body. This discovery may ...

A research team at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has discovered that certain dietary fatty acids can supercharge the human immune system's ability to fight cancer ...

Scientists at City of Hope have uncovered a gene called SMOC1 that plays a surprising role in the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D) by converting pancreatic cells that normally produce insulin into ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...

Researchers demonstrate an artificial neuron made of conductive plastics that can perform advanced functions similar to those of biological nerve cells. “Mimicking the behaviour of biological neurons ...

The couple went on to ask their audience to "stop saying we're expecting" Jason Duggar/Instagram Jason Duggar and his wife Maddie are revealing if they'll be having kids in the near future The couple ...

People need to sleep, and sleep deprivation can cause many changes in the brain. But we have a poor understanding of why sleep is so crucial. New research has examined a fruit fly model to assess how ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Metro residents were startled awake to a puzzling alert in the middle of the night, and it wasn’t an Amber Alert or a weather emergency. While it might have seemed like a ...

DNA is often called the blueprint of life, but what does that really mean? Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Genetics in the Heersink School of Medicine, explains everything ...