“It is generally believed that some form of the aggregated Aβ peptide leads to Alzheimer’s disease, and it’s conceivable that different fibril structures could lead to neurodegeneration with different ...

A newly identified class of RNA molecules has been discovered in bacteria living inside the human body. These circular ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

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Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Owing to the many different ways atoms can be arranged within the material, ice can exist in many more forms than what’s known as ice I, the type we’re all familiar with. Scientists have actually ...

Fungi are master engineers capable of building vast networks underground. Now, researchers have harnessed their capabilities to create a living building material that could be a sustainable ...

Bacterial biofilms contain a level of structural organisation that we thought was unique to plants and animals. Biofilms, slimy clumps of microorganisms like bacteria and fungi, were long thought to ...

While speech may be strictly linear, there are no immediate acoustic clues in the speech we hear as to where one word ends and another begins. And so the infant brain immediately assumes the role of a ...