A team led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a genome-scale reference map that details ...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have discovered a surprisingly simple way to create exotic light ...

When antibiotics attack microbes, their stressed neighbors ship them proteins to help them survive, new work suggests.

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to SpudCell, the most sophisticated attempt at creating an artificial life ...

Dark matter may be far more complicated than scientists once believed. A new study suggests it could consist of at least two ...

SpudCell marks a milestone for synthetic biology, but it is not fully alive. It will, however, help scientists answer key ...

For nearly a century, students have learned the inductive effect the same way. Now, researchers say that explanation may not ...

Researchers have uncovered a key mechanism that helps aging cells stop dividing before they can become cancerous, identifying the DNA damage sensor ATM as the central player in this process. Credit: ...

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that a rotating mass like the Earth pulls the fabric of space and ...

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

In mammals, hair follicles emerge during embryonic development, forming geometric patterns that vary from one species to ...