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 ...

For eight years running, Finland has been rated the happiest country in the world by a peculiar United Nations-backed project called the World Happiness Report, started in 2012. Soon after Finland ...

Public health experts say the anti-vaccine views fronted by the HHS secretary are wrong and undermine trust in science. But a ...

Fuel cells still ... doesn't look for simple causal chains. It doesn't ask whether a technology is good or bad, efficient or wasteful. Instead, it traces how coalitions of people, tools, policies, ...

Summary: Scientists have created the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to ... Scientists previously thought of inhibitory cells—those that suppress neural activity—as a simple force ...

New research reveals that cells don't always become round before dividing, challenging over a century of textbook biology.

Researchers revealed that mitosis doesn’t always feature cell rounding (when a parent cell becomes spherical), meaning that ...

Princess Margaret Cancer Center at University Health Network-led researchers constructed a detailed single-cell atlas of ...

Without this inhibition, the cells failed to propagate despite successful initial reprogramming. The research team found that chimpanzee naive PSCs share significant similarities with human naive ...

Yet, despite more than 20 years of study, the sweet receptor’s precise architecture remained elusive, even as scientists ...

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