Science

To protect and rear their young, some insects have transformed wild viruses into tiny biological weapons.

In good news for future animation figureheads, there might be a new way to revive frozen brains without damaging them. Scientists in China have developed a new chemical concoction that lets brain tissue function again after being frozen.

It predates Pythagoras by over 1,000 years.

Milestone: mRNA Cancer Vaccine Prompts Robust Immune Reaction Against Malignant Brain Tumors

Ars chats with physicist Greg Gbur about his book, Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics

An experimental treatment made from a plant virus is effective at protecting against a broad range of metastatic cancers in mice, shows a new study from the University of California San Diego. The treatment, composed of nanoparticles fashioned from the cowpea mosaic virus—a virus that infects black-...

Technology that enables researchers to interpret brain signals could one day allow people to talk using only their thoughts.

Explore the tiny 'pizza slice' down to the neuron.

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one that researchers are exploring with gusto.

Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole’s point of no return. “People often ask about this, and simulating these difficult-to-imagine processes he...

Although self-medication in non-human animals is often difficult to document systematically due to the difficulty of predicting its occurrence, there is widespread evidence of such behaviors as whole leaf swallowing, bitter pith chewing, and fur rubbing in African great apes, orangutans, white hande...

Researchers created a soft robot out of modular, cylindrical segments. The segments, which can operate independently or join to form a longer unit, all contribute to the robot’s ability to move and steer.

Children who experience chronic lack of sleep from infancy may be at increased risk of developing psychosis in early adulthood, new research shows.

A team of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators discovered that a subset of myeloid and lymphoid leukemias depend on a molecular complex called PI3Kgamma for survival. The study provides both mechanistic and preclinical evidence supporting the rapid initiation of clinical trials for patients wi...

Two new studies upend decades of research on the ways animals and insects learn.

Using enzymes produced by a bacteria that almost everyone has in their gut, researchers have removed the antigens from red blood cells that determine blood type, putting us within reach of producing universal donor blood.

The Neanderthal species remains an intriguing enigma for scientists and historians during their extensive exploration of time

A collaboration between the University of Sydney and University of Geneva has developed a completely new way to make 'surpamolecules' for drug discovery, developing a new type of anticoagulant with on-demand reversibility.

Living in Geologic Time: Scientists dismantle the myths of Yellowstone.

Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own

A Texas A&M neuroscientist explains the emerging research.

Ronit Freeman and her lab use innovative approaches to build functional cells, bridging the gap between synthetic and living materials.

The researchers showcase swept-coded aperture real-time femtophotography—an all-optical single-shot computational imaging modality at up to 156.3 trillion frames per second—video-records transient absorption in a semiconductor and ultrafast demagnetization of a metal alloy.

Published recently in a peer-reviewed international journal, the new study could help minimize the side effects of treatment and potentially improve survival rates for patients battling this aggressive cancer.