Up until recently, habituation -- a simple form of learning -- was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals. But a ...

Poetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and to help you find meaning and make sense of ...

Between hearts and minds, I lay the beams, Constructing bridges from hopes and dreams, With every story, a bridge takes ...

Up until recently, habituation — a simple form of learning — was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals. But a new ...

The National Institutes of Health, the crown jewel of biomedical research in the U.S., could face big changes under the new ...

There have been many poems written about trees ... A tree is very complex, constructed of chemicals, cells and tissue, and put together in an elaborate fashion. When Kilmer wrote that “Only God can ...

Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...

New research reveals that cells outside the brain can store and process memories, challenging the view that memory is limited ...

The study of dielectric properties of biological materials, ranging from exosomes and cells to organoids and tissues, is a burgeoning field in biophysics and bioengineering. The primary challenge in ...

T cells are white blood cells that are important for adaptive immunity. They have unique cell surface receptors that are generated by randomly assorting genes. These receptors allow T cells to ...

As a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, I recently gleaned three new insights from my oncologist and phlebotomist.

You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, mitochondria produce energy, lysosomes recycle waste and the ...