With its opposable thumb, multiple joints and gripping skin, human hands are often considered to be the pinnacle of dexterity, and many robotic hands are designed in their image. But having been shape ...

Size matters” sounds like a tabloid cliché, but for evolutionary biologists the size of the human penis is truly a puzzle. Compared to other great apes, such as chimpanzees and go ...

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed an experimental immunotherapy that takes an unconventional approach to metastatic cancer: instead of going after cancer cells d ...

“Size matters” sounds like a tabloid cliché, but for evolutionary biologists the size of the human penis is truly a puzzle. Compared to other great apes, such as ...

“Size matters” sounds like a tabloid cliché, but for evolutionary biologists the size of the human penis is truly a puzzle. Compared to other great apes, such as ...

The universe thrums with quantum fields; and the particles of matter and force emerge as vibrational manifestations of the deep symmetries of these fields. The layers and reflecti ...

This video is about the interesting and often-misunderstood story of the asteroids, and how they lost their planet-hood status; more recently than you may think!

A honeybee hive might seem like a peaceful utopia, but in reality, it’s buzzing with internal conflict between warring factions. And the biggest conflict is between the queen a ...

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, new scientific analyses and insider accounts have revealed major vulnerabilities in how the ...

Shingles vaccination not only protects against the disease but may also contribute to slower biological aging in older adults ...

An interdisciplinary team including researchers at McGill University has found a range of unexpected chemical contaminants in ...

When Feng Zhang was in his early 30s, he used a set of genes found in bacteria called CRISPR to pioneer a new kind of gene ...