A review on nano-architected mechanical metamaterials reveals how nanoscale geometry transforms material properties for ...

Ancient skull reveals our ears began evolving 50 million years earlier than thought, inside the jaw of a 250-million-year-old ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

Machine learning redesigns microscopic web sensors to be five times more flexible than nature-inspired versions, enabling detection of masses as small as trillionths of a gram.

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but ...

The central dogma of molecular biology suggests that the primary role of RNA is to convert the information stored in DNA into proteins. In reality, there is much more to the RNA story. However, in the ...

Kidneys filter all the blood in your body, manage your blood pressure and remove waste. Following a kidney-friendly diet can help keep them in good health. This is especially important considering how ...

Lysosomes are dynamic organelles that receive membrane traffic input from the secretory, endocytic, autophagic and phagocytic pathways. They can also fuse with the plasma membrane. Live-cell imaging ...

The only letter I’ve ever sent to the New York Times was in the 1980s, objecting to the paper’s suddenly pestilent use of “draconian.” During Iran–Contra the complaint must have seemed trivial; the ...