Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...

Scientists have discovered that breast cancer can disturb the brain’s daily stress hormone rhythms early in disease ...

With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the ...

This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would obliterate any other living thing. Here’s what this means for science ...

In trading four big leaguers for six prospects plus a draft pick last week, the Rays continued their purge of players who finished last season on their ...

Scientists depicted the four-dimensional genome model to reveal how DNA folding regulates genes. The discovery helps ...

Our busy schedule seldom allows us time to just sit back, relax and soak up the sun. Many of us are cooped up inside our ...

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

Many of us take the ability to make babies for granted and yet know that for some prospective parents and babies, ...

EPFL researchers have discovered how cells help keep their protein levels steady even when their ability to make new proteins ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Scientists engineered stem cells with “interrupted” CAG repeats to break up the toxic stretch. This may stop expansion, and could improve problems in cells that model Huntington’s disease. This study ...