New research into the anatomy of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 ...

The Norwegian-born condensed-matter physicist Ivar Giaever, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973, died on 20 June at the age of 96. In the late 1950s, Giaever made pioneering progress in the ...

It was a mechanical marvel, so advanced that it baffled archaeologists and scientists for over a century. A device that would ...

A newly discovered cell helps pythons digest entire skeletons—and might be present in other bone-eating predators, too.

On July 6, 1885, a vaccine for rabies was administered successfully to a nine-year-old boy named Joseph Meister under the ...

This important study presents a new method for longitudinally tracking cells in two-photon imaging data that addresses the specific challenges of imaging neurons in the developing cortex. It provides ...

Small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channel 2 (SK2) serves a variety of biological functions by coupling intracellular calcium dynamics with membrane potential. SK2 modulators are in ...

Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...