18+ hour, 4+ min ago   (168+ words) Google mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly, reconstructing more than 166,000 individual neurons. Google's fully mapped fruit fly brain is barely a week old, and it's already been put to work doing what…...

8+ hour, 30+ min ago   (680+ words) Natural killer cells have long been celebrated as the swift, unsung assassins of the immune system, capable of detecting and destroying tumor cells without the elaborate priming that T cells require....

11+ hour, 22+ min ago   (620+ words) Every heartbeat, every twitch of a fin, and every dividing cell in a fish embryo depends on a molecular machine so ancient that its origins trace back billions of years. Oxidative phosphorylation, or OXPHOS, is the process by which cells…...

13+ hour, 38+ min ago   (651+ words) Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) is one of the most important forage grasses in temperate agriculture, prized for its rapid growth, high digestibility and adaptability to intensive grazing and cutting systems. Yet behind its agronomic value lies a stubborn problem…...

13+ hour, 44+ min ago   (334+ words) Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died....

1+ day, 50+ min ago   (278+ words) University of Rochester researchers have found that a protein long associated with chronic inflammation and aging may also play an important protective role, complicating efforts to target it in therapies for age-related disease. The protein, known as cGAS, can detect…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (209+ words) Biology – the study of living things – can admittedly be a little reductive at times....

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1081+ words) In September 2026, MIT researchers announced that they had engineered colonies of bacteria to behave like transistors: the tiny switches at the heart of every electronic device. Printed onto an agar plate in precise arrangements, these living colonies form “circuit boards…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (691+ words) Note: This article was originally published 30 years ago, on Aug. 7, 1996. Brian Barnes and author Ned Rozell have since retired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and scientists now know that the wood frog’s internal body temperature can dip to 0.6 degrees…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (510+ words) Researchers uncover the molecular strategy that enables PoXeR, a light-driven protein found in deep-sea microorganisms, to adapt to extreme pressure A research team, led by Professor Gaku Fukuhara of Kyushu University’s Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering (IMCE), investigated this…...