Study shows that fixation devices derived from silkworm silk are potentially attractive alternatives to metal and synthetic-based systems When a ...

Team of researchers searched for the foundations of manic-depressive disorder in about 24,000 people First on top of the world ...

Soft robots — which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels — ...

When Manu Prakash, PhD, wants to impress lab visitors with the durability of his Origami-based paper microscope, he throws it ...

The King lab, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, is seeking a creative, motivated, ...

It may be the birth of a new supermaterial – not long ago, spider silk materials were considered science fiction. ...

Intelligent people are more likely to trust others, while those who score lower on measures of intelligence are less likely ...

Although choosing to do something because the perceived benefit outweighs the financial cost is something people do daily, little is ...

Researchers at UC Berkeley found that an electrical current can be used to orchestrate the flow of a group of ...

Medical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects: Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great ...

A co-author of a Japanese study that promised a revolutionary way to create stem cells has called for the headline-grabbing ...

There have been plenty of fad diets that captured the public's imagination over the years, but Harvard scientists have identified ...

Fresh banana, a waft of flowers, blueberry: the scents in Shota Atsumi's laboratory in the UC Davis Department of Chemistry ...

A team of Bio-X researchers at Stanford has developed mice whose sensitivity to pain can be dialed up or down ...

The Microdevice Design Research Assistant IV will perform research and collaborate with Institute faculty, staff, fellow and students in the ...

In a significant advance for the growing field of synthetic biology, Rice University bioengineers have created a toolkit of genes ...

ZENBU, a new, freely available bioinformatics tool developed at the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technology in Japan, enables researchers ...

Massey University scientists have discovered a universal law that explains how hybrid species survive and thrive. Massey University computational biologist ...

For the first time, researchers have shown that an essential biological process known as protein synthesis can be studied in ...

Brains are the most powerful computers known. Now microchips built to mimic insects’ nervous systems have been shown to successfully ...