Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

A Japanese team has developed a technique to insert chloroplasts isolated from algae into animal cells, a feat that could ...

While these are only two of a whole host of processes that need to be recreated to truly mimic a cell, these first creations ...

To overcome these challenges and enable the imaging of chemical reactions, the researchers thus utilized a special imaging ...

Researchers unveil the inner mechanisms of the most intricate and complex molecular machine in human biology. Scientists at the Centre (CRG) in Barcelona have developed the first comprehensive ...

How does the brain store—and access—our memories? While our understanding of the brain has (thankfully) developed greatly from the days of removing cerebral tissue to see what would happen, a precise ...

How can metacognitive strategies be incorporated into science teaching to create an ambitious and inclusive curriculum, which ...

Researchers have developed tiny, wireless devices capable of wrapping around individual neurons, potentially aiding in the ...

Embryonic stem cells are controversial since they are derived from human embryos that have either been destroyed or harvested for science. Embryonic stem cells were first grown in a laboratory in 1998 ...

Researchers have significantly improved the performance of kesterite (CZTSSe) thin-film solar cells. They developed ... was funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT's Source Technology ...

Kamal is a freelance science journalist based in the UK with a PhD in virology from the University of Cambridge. View full profile. Learn about our editorial policies. When Wolfrum and his team used ...

This month’s picks include a time-travel thriller with Dylan O’Brien and a dystopian comedy with Awkwafina and John Cena. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Stream it on Max. Unlike the impossibly ...