Aging is a privilege, but it also brings risks—including an increased likelihood of developing age-related diseases including ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Tree structures have been widely used to model intelligent behavior, such as reasoning, problem-solving, and language ...

Three-nucleon force affects nuclear stability, impacting element formation and stellar evolution. The force increases energy ...

This study identified key structural components of the sodium ion pathways in the stator of the bacterial flagellar motor. It also uncovered some of the structural changes that the stator undergoes as ...

Scientists uncover how the nucleolus, a tiny structure within cells, may control aging and lifespan, opening new ...

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkable new form of symbiosis — a bacterium that lives inside a single-celled organism (a ...

This important study demonstrates the potential of synthetic gene circuits to detect and target aberrant RAS activity in cancer cell lines. The circuit design is novel and the evidence supporting the ...

Protein complex in bacterial cell membrane acts like a rotary motor to recruit DNA-degrading enzymes to defend against phage ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating ...