An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience tactics, from medicine to space exploration.

Scientists dive into the genomes of whales, elephants, and other animal giants looking for new weapons in the fight against cancer.

New artificial intelligence tools help scientists fight back against a rising tide of research misconduct, but is it enough?

Neuroscience research historically overlooked female subjects. Today, researchers actively rebalance the scales.

Scientists are pulling on the protein threads that bind textiles and cosmetics together.

Research into bat immune systems may help keep humans safe from viral attacks.

Recent advances in modeling the human placenta may inform placental disorders like preeclampsia

To understand how memories are formed and maintained, neuroscientists travel far beyond the cell body in search of answers.

Bacteria cooperate to benefit the collective, but cheaters can rig the system

Once dismissed as genomic noise, some noncoding sequences (and the microproteins they encode) play important roles in cancer

From eukaryote evolution to bacterial hijacking, researchers peer ever further into the building blocks of life

From the cerebellum to neurodegenerative disease, researchers are giving old science a fresh look