NASA once sent over 2,000 jellyfish into space to study how gravity affects biological development. The unusual experiment ...

A 17-year-old whose science experiment led to a massive probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and hazardous ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

Scientists have discovered that a rare “mirror-image” version of the amino acid cysteine can dramatically slow the growth of certain cancers while leaving healthy cells largely untouched. Unlike most ...

The UC Irvine student said experiments in his home lab were aimed at developing treatments for serious illnesses and involved ...

How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics through motion experiments, and earth science through field observations. That ...

Human brain cells are now interacting with computer systems, learning to play video games like Doom. Researchers have ...

The experiment began with a straightforward prediction: microbes from older mice would age young ovaries. But when the results came in, the data pointed the other way. In a new study in Nature Aging, ...

In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it's snowing. This "marine snow" is the dust and detritus that organisms slough off as they die and decompose. Marine snow can fall several kilometers ...

How to calm down an overstimulated brain, according to science - LET’S UNPACK THAT: Everything from doom scrolling on our ...