The America250 time capsule will hold dozens of historical treasures. Avoiding dampness and other dangers requires lots of ...

Engineers have developed a new way to monitor how tiny lab-grown human heart tissues beat—by effectively "listening" to the ...

By 2050, scientists estimate that antibiotic-resistant infections will be associated with more than eight million deaths ...

In humans, that supply dwindles until menopause, when it goes bankrupt. Over the past two decades, scientists have identified ...

An international team, including the University of Tokyo, has created a sensor inspired by the lateral line in fish – their ...

While rodents are the cornerstone of modern neuroscience research, it has remained an open question whether they possess the ...

In 1954, the USPS was looking for innovative ways to process the 54 billion items mailed. National Geographic traveled to ...

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

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 ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.