A paper published in PNAS in May describes work by External Professor Juan Pérez-Mercader and colleagues to create ...

Singlet oxygen can be damaging in both cells and batteries but it has taken almost 60 years to work out exactly when it shows ...

Scientists have found a way to make atoms dance with light, quite literally. In certain crystals, vibrations called phonons ...

UMass Amherst engineers create low-voltage artificial neurons using bacterial nanowires, promising efficient bio-inspired ...

Scientists have built an artificial neuron that’s so realistic it fires, learns, and responds to chemical signals just like ...

Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm to one day help people conceive.

A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced the creation of an artificial neuron with ...

AggreBots are mini living robots made from human cells that can move, spin, and swim, paving the way for medicine delivery and tissue repair.

Scientists are exploring how RNA might have jump-started life four billion years ago and how it's now advancing drug ...

Bacterial fragments called peptidoglycans may influence daily sleep patterns and also affect the brain health cycle strongly.

Rewiring the command neurons in the tactile circuit is sufficient to change the behavioral strategy of a whole animal, implying a 'plug-and-play' flexibility in sensorimotor circuits.

This work, combining behavioural genetics and calcium imaging, provides evidence for a form of learning in Drosophila that derives solely from direct or (optogenetically induced) phantom experience of ...