Cancer cells are subjected to high mechanical pressure that leads to a rupture of the nuclear envelope when migrating through ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

The primary question driving research at the MPI-CBG since its inception has been how cells form tissues. Discover more here ...

Imaging living in a home where the actual walls have the capacity to store energy and run all the electrical devices and ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured “ultraweak” photon emissions from living organisms. In rats this glow fades rapidly after death. In plants it brightens under stress. In the ...

Near-death experiences blend science, spirituality, and the unknown, raising profound questions about what it means to be alive, what it means to die, and whether we truly understand either.

Rose petals' unique shapes come from stress during growth. Differential growth and mechanical stresses create curled edges.

Tucked away on the northern California coastline sits Eureka, a Victorian wonderland where your retirement dreams can actually become reality without winning the lottery first.

Cells are crowded with proteins and nucleic acids. A new study measures subcellular densities across organisms to uncover how ...

An ambitious and revolutionary initiative aims to map every cell of all eukaryotic life on Earth. The result will be a ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy and complex, ...