In its purest form (with no extra debris), liquid water can exist as a liquid until -40°C if left still (unmoving). In order ...

Scientists have built atom-sized pores that act like living ion channels, opening the door to next-generation nanotech.

When we artificially induce rain or snow, we use a process called cloud seeding. Particles are launched into the sky to give water molecules a surface to freeze onto. As the ice crystals grow heavier, ...

Scientists recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell ...

From tiny cells to vast cities, life persists by keeping chaos under control. The same thermodynamic forces that cause coffee ...

Hospital wastewater is difficult to clean because it often carries two very different threats at once: chemical dye residues and harmful bacteria. Researchers have now developed a polyurethane ...

The very first patient would receive the first clinical doses of HMBD-001, the first cancer treatment from Hummingbird Bioscience. Piers Ingram, the cofounder and CEO of the company, was nervous, but ...

Cancer drugs like cisplatin are designed to attack tumor cells, but new research shows these therapies can concentrate inside specialized molecular clusters within the nucleus, altering how ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have produced ultrathin bismuth ferrite (BiFeO₃) films that deliver a fourfold increase in piezoelectric response while operating below the 30-nanometer ...

When a virus infects a bacterial cell, the viral genome is the first component to be fully injected into the cell, making it an ideal immune target. A bacterial enzyme anchored to the membrane ...

Lysosomes are the control centers for the metabolism of cells and tissues, including the brain. They break down defective proteins and other macromolecules into their basic building blocks.

Our limited understanding of the metabolism of our microbial ancestor is a sizeable gap in our knowledge of how complex life originated. Resolving whether our closest microbial relatives had ...