More than 3,600 meters beneath the Arctic Ocean, scientists have stumbled onto a hidden world that should not, by ...

Far below the ice and storms of the high north, scientists have pinpointed the deepest known Arctic vent system and found it bursting with organisms that should not, by any intuitive measure, be able ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...

Veronika Koren talks about pursuing a theory of neural coding that doesn’t fit a simple narrative, and the resilience it took to see it through.

By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...

Organs often have fluid-filled spaces called lumens, which are crucial for organ function and serve as transport and delivery networks. Lumens in the pancreas form a complex ductal system, and its ...

Molecular Biology is the field of biology that studies the composition, structure and interactions of cellular molecules such as nucleic acids and proteins that carry out the biological processes ...

Structural biology is the study of the molecular structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules, particularly proteins and nucleic acids, and how alterations in their structures affect their ...

The immune system’s first encounter with a virus or vaccine establishes a “starting template” that shapes its response to new ...

NPR's Short Wave talks about elephants' sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Many of us will throw modesty out the window when it comes to Christmas lunch. But what do these blow-out festive meals do to our body and brain? From running up stairs, to rigorous gardening: these ...