Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), shoots electrons through a frozen sample. The images formed by the electrons ...

In one of the hottest places on the planet, a modest desert shrub has quietly rewritten what scientists thought plants could ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first glance. Its knobby flower stalks look more like a mushroom than a flowering ...

So if we’re right, each former human is now essentially a radio transmitter and receiver. One plurb sends out a signal that ...

Many projects on these pages do clever things with video. Whether it’s digital or analogue, it’s certain our community can ...

Glassy materials are everywhere, with applications far exceeding windowpanes and drinking glasses. They range from bioactive ...

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During a recent workshop, a senior executive said to me, “None of us knows how people will learn in this new era.” Lynda Gratton is a professor of management practice at London Business School and the ...

One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

Zepbound works by mimicking the action of two hormones: glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). GIP and GLP-1 activate certain receptors (binding sites) ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

Steven Haahr, a certified personal trainer, explains that vibration plates are tied to a health concept called “whole body vibration,” in which a person stands on “platforms that oscillate, or shake, ...