The peanut-shaped compartments where future queens grow up seem to play an important role in development. The wax has ...

Specifically, they created a mouse brain map that tracked lipofuscin as the mice aged and their brains’ abilities to recycle ...

Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game "Doom" and say they are just scratching the surface of what the neurons could be ...

A medication long used to help people breathe may soon help protect the liver as well. Researchers at the Medical University ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game "Doom" and say they are just scratching the surface of ...

Some jobs sound exciting and then burn people out. Others sound dull, but they pay the bills, come with decent insurance, and ...

Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began. For 15 years, Sébastien Fontaine has been trying to kill dirt. The ...

It was in 1901 in Vienna that a seemingly innocent laboratory experiment brought about an irreversible shift in the world of ...

Scientists have solved a decades-old bacterial shape mystery, uncovering a potential new target for antibiotics.

We can use microscopes to look at objects too small to be seen by the naked eye. The microscope in the picture is a light microscope. It uses focused light passed through the object and two lenses to ...

Scientists discovered that fog droplets can host living bacteria that grow and help remove harmful pollutants from the atmosphere, revealing fog as a surprisingly active microbial environment.