Researchers learn to predict visual imagery in dreams based on functional MRI scans of brain activity during sleep.
Researchers learn to predict visual imagery in dreams based on functional MRI scans of brain activity during sleep.
A microfluidic device scans individual C. elegans for abnormal traits and sorts wild-type animals from mutants.
Unlike epithelial cells, neurons respond to herpes infection through autophagy, rather than by releasing inflammatory factors.
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The rise of copulation as a vertebrate reproductive strategy may have driven crucial evolutionary change and explosive species radiation.
How photosynthetic organisms get taken up, passed around, and discarded throughout the eukaryotic domain
Comparing gene transcripts from different species reveals surprising splicing diversity.
This year, US politics was dominated by the run-up to October elections, with science policy issues playing a role here and elsewhere around the world.
A roundup of species that made their scientific debut in 2012, and a few that said goodbye as well
The science images and videos that captured our attention in 2012