biology

A new method is able to create realistic models of the human heart, which could vastly improve how surgeons train for complex procedures.

A new study found similarities between the human brain and the cosmic network of galaxies.

The compound found in “magic mushrooms” has significant and fast-acting impact on the brains of rats.

Psychologists discover that the way the brain perceives beauty differs between art or faces.

Researchers design microdevices that can gradually deliver medicine by latching on to intestines.

A new study shows you should put down the toilet lid when flushing to avoid coronavirus and other illnesses.

So far, the research is mixed.

We make school kids read “Lord of the Flies”—but it’s only half the story.

A new study seeks to understand why the average body temperature is no longer 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

A meteorite that smashed into a frozen lake in Michigan may explain the origins of life on Earth, finds study.

Researchers find a key clue to the evolution of bony fish and tetrapods.

Mosquitoes can taste your blood using unique sensory abilities. Can we use that to keep them off us?

Researchers explore the “complex web of connections” in your brain that allows you to make split second decisions.

The sudden prevalence of an artery in the forearm is evidence that we’re still very much a work in progress.

Modern crops have been optimized for a lot of things, but not for climate change.

94 percent of men in the study have this mutation, which explains why men are more likely to die.

We owe a lot to vaccines and the scientists that develop them. But we’ve only just touched the surface of what vaccines can do.

A large-scale study from King’s College London explores the link between genetics and sun-seeking behaviors.

A new study finds that starlet sea anemones have the unique ability to grow more tentacles when they’ve got more to eat.

Novichok means “newcomer” in Russian.

A new study shows bacteria could survive travel from Earth to Mars.

A new study at Emory Vaccine Center gets into the bone marrow.

Johns Hopkins researchers hope this could lead to new interventions for combating it.

Math doesn’t suck. It is one of humanity’s greatest and most mysterious journeys.

DNA molecules are highly programmable.

Science has been male-biased far too long.

Researchers figure out the function of mysterious heart structures first described by da Vinci.

New research reveals that because of an optical illusion, we’ve been viewing sperm incorrectly for nearly 350 years.

Are there innate differences between female and male brains?

President Vladimir Putin announces approval of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine but scientists warn it may be unsafe.