The goal of creating synthetic cells is not to replace nature, but to learn more deeply about biology and reengineer it to ...

Buzz Lightyear has made multiple metatextual leaps since his groundbreaking debut in 1995, from fictional toy to actual toy to cultural icon, and now, to honest-to-God action hero. With Lightyear ...

How did the elephant become so big? Why do dolphins have such a huge brain? These are just some of the puzzles that Chris Packham hopes to solve in his new BBC TV series, Evolution. Each episode in ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge whether a cantaloupe is ripe.

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...

A tiny zebrafish, separated from us by more than 400 million years of evolution, sorts and then combines its senses in the ...

Once you start seeing natural selection as a constant, omnipresent, and sometimes speedy force, almost everything else in ...

The confocal microscope image shows the huddled appearance of the Mesotaenium cells upon UV exposure; the plastid autofluoresces red, the cell wall was stained with a cyan dye. A new study sheds light ...

Other projects include developing tools to help visually impaired people navigate video games Parents are constantly being told to limit their children’s screen time. But when it comes to deciphering ...

Puma opened the doors to a new one-night-only experience in Los Angeles on Wednesday in celebration of its Nitro shoe technology. Dubbed the Puma Nitro Lab, the experiential space revealed the German ...

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