Just as life pulsates in big vibrant cities, it also prospers in crowded environments inside cells. The interior of cells is ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...

Salk neuroscientists discover brain area called gracile nucleus is central to the development of mechanical allodynia, a chronic pain condition that affects 7 to 10 percent of the global population.

When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster ...

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful ...

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...

Maybe aging isn’t the slow, solitary process we imagine, but a collective breakdown—our cells dragging each other toward ...

Before a chain of amino acids can become an active and useful protein, it must be processed and folded into the appropriate ...

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...

Cloned and genetically modified animals are jumping the lab and entering the black market, possibly forever altering our ecosystems.

The seventh episode of Wayward is called “Ascend.” Ascension almost always comes with a spiritual connotation. There are not ...