Many living organisms are able to regenerate damaged or lost tissue, but why some are particularly good at this and others are not is not fully understood. Molecular biologists have now made an ...

The invention uses light, sound and bubbles to quickly create copies of soft tissue that might one day support testing individualized therapies for cancer and other diseases ...

We’re in the midst of a rapidly escalating global plastics crisis. More than 11 billion metric tons of virgin plastics were ...

Humans, it turns out, possess much higher metabolic rates than other mammals, including our close relatives, apes and ...

This set was recorded at a ‘best of’ live gig hosted by Festival of the Spoken Nerd at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre. It was my ...

A speed record has been broken using nanoscience, which could lead to a host of new advances, including improved battery ...

“Ligaments and tendons are types of connective tissue that play essential roles in supporting, anchoring, and connecting ...

A mysterious 2,000-year-old mug has revealed evidence of a bizarre liquid concoction used in ancient Egyptian rituals.

In a review paper published recently in Science Robotics a cognitive roboticist, cognitive psychologist and a psychiatrist discuss the concept of “sense of self” in humans, and they explore how robots ...

SINGAPORE – The mating habits of pandas, rhinoceroses and wombats, the relative sizes of hominid baby heads versus birth ...

WHEN I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share some lore. “Legend has it,” she said, “John James Audubon really collected ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...