When a plant's immune system is triggered, its growth is stunted. Colorado State University researchers have discovered how to turn on a hormone that allows plants to keep growing as they defend ...

Cornell researchers have uncovered a built-in molecular "gate" that controls the production of the molecule nitric oxide, a crucial signaling molecule throughout biology that in humans helps regulate ...

“Such soft-tissue structures are extremely rare in the fossil record – and the further back we look in Earth’s history, the ...

No body, no dopamine, no problem. Scientists have successfully coached lab-grown brain tissue to solve a classic robotics challenge, proving that the will to learn is hardwired into our neurons.

Researchers have found that the severity of autism symptoms, rather than the diagnosis itself, is linked to patterns of brain connectivity associated with genes connected to autism and ADHD.

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics ...

Muyan Liu, a junior at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, traveled to Northeast Pennsylvania to test her neuroscience knowledge in the 25th annual NEPA Brain Bee hosted at the University of ...

“If we can capture the right combinations of shape and complexity, we can design restoration structures that function like ...

In response to social cues, individual clownfish will switch sexes. Cutting-edge research reveals the neural and genetic ...

Researchers uncover a redox-regulated mechanism that determines whether bone fractures heal or progress to nonunion ...

NASA uses a portable microplate reader on the International Space Station to study bone loss, providing real-time biological data for astronaut health and space biology research.