With dogged persistence and an unwillingness to entertain defeat, Bruce Beutler discovered a receptor that powers the innate immune response to infections—and earned his share of a Nobel Prize.
With dogged persistence and an unwillingness to entertain defeat, Bruce Beutler discovered a receptor that powers the innate immune response to infections—and earned his share of a Nobel Prize.
Animals and plants come in a dizzying array of colors. Current research is cracking into the remarkable structures behind nature's artistic display.
Researchers are working to understand how often-colorless biological nanostructures give rise to some of the most spectacular technicolor displays in nature.
Pro athletes can learn to parse a complicated moving visual scene faster than most.
Domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals every year, making them a top threat to US wildlife.
A putative ion channel integral to mammalian hearing turns out to be an elusive salt-sensing chemoreceptor in nematode worms.
A Taiwanese businessman has created a new science award that gives recipients more money than Nobel Laureates.
A proposal to simulate all of Earth’s ecosystems is exposing a rift between small and big ecology.
The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
A University of Wisconsin neuroscientist is found guilty of falsifying Western blots as part of his stroke research, and has requested the retraction of two papers.