New research from Colorado State University into the ways neurons regulate chemical balance in the brain could provide ...

Darwinian evolution says that complex systems arise through numerous successive, slight modifications that benefit the ...

As tough as medieval chainmail armor and as soft as a contact lens. This material is not taken from science fiction, it is a ...

Liquids and solutions are complex environments—think, for example, of sugar dissolving in water, where each sugar molecule ...

Bell Labs is already highly recognized, but in its centennial year, the organization hoped to add more awards to burnish its ...

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Preliminary studies indicate that derivatives of verticillin A can kill certain types of glioma cells. MIT chemists have, for ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common and challenging neurodegenerative diseases globally. It mostly affects older adults, causing irreversible changes in the brain that result in the ...

A major study shows complex cells evolved gradually in an oxygen-poor world, challenging long-held assumptions about life’s ...

The mammalian elongation complex has remained a mystery – until researchers discovered how it controls its speed.

In the waters off South Korea, a modest sea sponge produces a molecule so unusual that chemists spent 14 years trying to make it. Now, a team at Yale has finally succeeded. Their success, published in ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University, Japan), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne, Australia), and ...