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

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

A researcher works on a device at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. This part of the facility provides low-energy radioactive beams. Credit: Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Oxygen is the most ...

In an era where the U.S. healthcare system spends $4.5T annually yet faces systemic failures, with life expectancy plummeting to a three-decade low and chronic disease rates at an all-time high, the ...

In their quest for safe, mass-producible artificial blood, geneticists have long struggled. Our limited knowledge of genetic ...

David Chalmers’s formulation of the hard problem of consciousness owes a large debt to Thomas Nagel’s earlier paper, "What is it like to be a bat?" There, Nagel pointed out that “An organism has ...

It is estimated that one-third of the 50 million people worldwide with epilepsy are resistant to anti-seizure medications.

On July 1, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected what was first believed to be an asteroid. As ...