A research team got a lab result that even he couldn't quite believe. It goes against all conventional wisdom: the first evidence of a protein that could conduct electricity like a metal.
Public data leading to a discovery outside the organization is a big step.
The Allen Institute for Brain Science has added the first data from human nerve cells to a publicly available database for researchers to explore and understand the building blocks of the human brain.
Do social pressures cause the evolution of big brains? The debate is ongoing.
An Australian-US team has devised a way to make a broad class of atomically thin metal oxides, including 2D versions of materials already in use by the electronics industry. Their secret is a room temperature liquid metal.
Electronic devices that are completely broken down in a biological environment after a pre-defined operating life open up novel applications as well as ways for reducing their ecological footprint.
Psilocybin makes a brain circuit involved in depression break down and reform anew.
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to a group of individuals who pushed the electron microscope to its very limit, figuring out how to use it to determine the position of every single atom in large, complex molecules.
The current earthquake swarm around the Yellowstone supervolcano is now the longest ever recorded. The swarm started June 12, and over the past three or so months, around 2,500 earthquakes have been recorded so far.
By scanning the brains of healthy volunteers, researchers saw the first, long-sought evidence that our brains may drain some waste out through lymphatic vessels, the body's sewer system.
On October 2, Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.”
The researchers argue they have uncovered evidence that there was life on Earth more than 3.95 billion years ago—on a planet that isn’t much more than 4.5 billion years old itself.
Genes which determine animal complexity -- or what makes humans so much more complex than a fruit fly or a sea urchin -- have been identified for the first time.
A new study has produced an antibody that's able to kill off 99 percent of HIV strains. It is said to be more effective than any naturally occurring antibody that's been discovered.
Researchers have developed a mobile test using technology found in smartphones, and it could provide doctors and carers with a virtually instantaneous way of diagnosing someone with HIV.
