Many insect species hear using tympanal organs, membranes roughly resembling our eardrums but located on their legs.

A 410-million-year-old fossil shows ancient lichens were shaping Earth’s surface long before forests took root.

Memristors — short for “memory resistors” — are the brainlike workhorses of neuromorphic computing, capable of learning from ...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory found that Dicer, an ancient RNA-cutting protein shared by humans and yeast, ...

How one woman went from a severe alopecia areata diagnosis to finding the right prescription treatment for her—and getting ...

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

Look around. You see buildings, concrete, trees, shrubs, people, pets, and more. Our eyes — fitted with lenses that filter ...

The brewing process takes raw cereal grain – usually from barley – and converts its starch and proteins into simpler chemicals by malting. Brewers initiate this process by adding water, which wakes ...

Poultry, meanwhile, tends to carry a bacteria called Campylobacter jejuni, which produces a toxin that invades ...

Mind blowing timelapse video of a Rose of Jericho blooming back to life after being exposed to moisture for just a few hours - also with scientific explanation.

If you’ve heard the buzz about oral probiotics, lozenges or melts that deliver beneficial bacteria to your mouth, you’re not ...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease (typically arising in younger people) that occurs when your immune system attacks ...