The communication network in the developing brain builds when neurons partner up to form contact points called synapses, allowing signals to pass from one cell to another. At the same time, a web of ...

Stresses experienced by black women, such as socioeconomic inequalities, may alter key processes in the body that predispose ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Universities are increasingly integrating AI literacy into biology education, combining responsible AI use with proven study techniques like visual mnemonics and structured lab reporting. This shift ...

UCSF's Cherry Leung, associate professor of community health systems with the UC San Francisco School of Nursing, researches ...

Hawaii’s marine mammals often get entangled in fishing nets, lines, and plastics in the ocean — a well-known fact. But which one is most at risk of extinction from plastic pollution? The endangered ...

Scientists at EPFL have developed CenSpark, a fluorescent probe that makes centrioles and cilia visible inside living cells, ...

Serious fungal infections are on the rise, and many hospital-acquired cases are becoming harder to treat as fungi become ...

A rare group of adults over 80, known as SuperAgers, are rewriting what we thought was possible for the aging brain. With ...

The Curiosity rover landed on Mars way too late to observe barren Gale Crater when it was potentially lush Gale Lake. Three ...

A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain's smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and ...

Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only beginning to be understood. A black oak in the Yale-Myers Forest of northern ...