A global team profiled nearly 26 million brain cells from the basal ganglia to build a cross-species reference database that ...

Photonic crystals are periodic optical structures that can control the flow of light. Multiple reflections from surfaces separated by a distance similar to the wavelength prevent an optical beam from ...

Antimicrobial responses refer to any host process triggered by the exposure to a microorganism that results in a change in state, activity or viability of the microorganism – for example, movement, ...

A promising biotechnology company developed a new approach that might treat a rare disease — but its sole employee didn’t do ...

The waters around the zone of floating debris appear greener and bluer on account of high levels of tiny bits of plastic.

The world’s farms depend on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers to increase crop yields, but the production and use of these ...

Lead-based light-emitting materials are widely studied for their light-emission properties. But lead contaminates the ...

Personalities in the animal kingdom can dictate everything from the hunting tactics of spiders to how long chimpanzee mothers ...

A combination of body and organ-function metrics does better at classifying obesity than does body mass index.