A team of scientists has created a new shape-changing polymer that could transform how future soft materials are constructed. Made…
Organ transplantation is an incredible medical accomplishment that unfortunately still presents significant unsolved challenges, including rejection by the body's immune…
Polar sea ice is ever-changing. It shrinks, expands, moves, breaks apart, reforms in response to changing seasons, and rapid climate…
Rice University's Peter Wolynes and his research team have unveiled a breakthrough in understanding how specific genetic sequences, known as…
Neuropathy, the nerve damage that causes pain and numbness in the feet and hands and can eventually lead to falls,…
A deep dive into macroalgae genetics has uncovered the genetic underpinnings that enabled macroalgae, or "seaweed," to evolve multicellularity. Three…
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a programmable metafluid with…
Recording the activity of large populations of single neurons in the brain over long periods of time is crucial to…
Many bacterial pathogens use small injection apparatuses to manipulate the cells of their hosts, such as humans, so that they…
Preeclampsia is a mysterious condition that occurs in about one of 10 pregnancies without any early warning signs. After 20…