A new technique that uses soundwaves to separate materials for recycling could help prevent potentially harmful chemicals leaching into the environment.

This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks that govern thought, behavior, and consciousness. It also explores how ...

Starting in the 1970s, researchers identified a beautiful system of specialised cells in the hippocampus (the brain’s memory ...

There, on April 12 and 13, "human shogi" matches were played on a ... matches using warrior-style speech. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun ...

The ultimate goal is to create a complete wiring diagram of ... points between cells).” The process they used was to take a cubic millimeter of mouse brain and sliced it into 25,000 layers, each ...

The papers, published in Nature this week, investigate the use of cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells and human embryonic stem cells, respectively. However, further research is ...

Building off work published late last year in ACS Macro Letters, a team at King’s College London is developing methods for lab-grown replacement teeth and fillings made from human cells.

This feat, part of the MICrONS Project, rivals the Human Genome Project in ambition ... the result is the largest wiring diagram and functional map of the brain to date, containing more than 200,000 ...

One of the ultimate goals of biological research is to understand the multiscale organization of the human cell and its relationship to biological function and human disease. As much of cell ...

In 1979, famed molecular biologist, Francis Crick, stated that it would be "[impossible] to create an exact wiring diagram ... cells -- those that suppress neural activity -- as a simple force ...