For decades, scientists have struggled to understand exactly how years of taking hits to the head while playing sports can translate into severe memory loss and dementia later in life. The work is a ...
There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...
When a virus infects a bacterial cell, the viral genome is the first component to be fully injected into the cell, making it an ideal immune target. A bacterial enzyme anchored to the membrane ...
Our limited understanding of the metabolism of our microbial ancestor is a sizeable gap in our knowledge of how complex life originated. Resolving whether our closest microbial relatives had ...
The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.
The powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR–Cas9 might offer a way to make safer, more effective cancer-fighting immune cells ...
Warning systems can engage people on a personal level — if they are built in a way that bridges technology and social science.
The database of 200 million protein-structure predictions now includes homodimers, adding new biological relevance.
Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and ...
Survey examines how often academics attempt jokes during conference talks — and how these attempts at comedy land.
One pill for obesity is already on the market, and more are on the way. But the injected drugs have key advantages.
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