The cosmetics industry is constantly searching for new active ingredients–and this time, a sea creature that is anything but ...

A recent study sheds light on why colorectal cancer is showing up more often in younger adults, pointing to a stiffer colon ...

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

Imaging technology has transformed how we observe the universe—from mapping distant galaxies with radio telescope arrays to ...

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics ...

Tiny lab-grown brains are offering an unprecedented look at how schizophrenia and bipolar disorder disrupt neural activity.

Dr. Quincy Brown, a Tulane University professor of biomedical engineering who grew up in Columbia, has been named a Fellow of ...

Here we explore the options for a world where people will routinely live in good health well into their nineties. The capacity to live well for longer has long been a focus for life sciences and ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

Shoot for the moon and you may land among the stars, as the saying goes. Or, in the case of 14 local college students, aim for Mars and you may arrive on Earth.