This year could mark a turning point for one of science’s most familiar animals: the laboratory mouse. For decades, mice and ...

Some 10% of people shy away from medical attention because they have a severe fear of needles, and nobody likes getting poked ...

In A Nutshell Living detectors: Researchers modified E. coli bacteria to light up when they sense acetic acid, the chemical ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Weizmann Institute researchers say that progesterone and the stress hormone cortisol drive circadian rhythms; when out of ...

In labs that once focused on fruit flies and mouse neurons, researchers are now turning their instruments and intuitions on ...

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can responsibly use these bits of gray matter.

“They were interested in ethno-mycology, but she especially — in Russian culture, mushrooms are much more prevalent than we see in the United States. So they’re traveling and they heard about this ...

This section of our lecture series is all about the weird and wonderful world of quantum mechanics. It’s not just abstract ...

The upcoming parliamentary elections in Hungary, scheduled for April 12th, are going beyond the framework of national ...

The ancient Romans took bathing seriously—it was a crucial facet of their daily lives, and people from a range of social rungs enjoyed dips in public baths. Romans seem to have taken sanitation ...