Visual representation of color spaces aligning with a mathematical apex. (LANL) Beauty may lie in the eye of the beholder, but color doesn't, researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US ...

UC San Diego bioengineer Kiana Aran spent five days sealed inside a pitch-black chamber in rural Poland last November, tracking her own brain and body as her internal clock fell apart. The ...

In the everyday world that humans experience, objects behave in a predictable way, explained by classical physics. One of the important aspects of classical physics is that nothing travels faster than ...

Lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, are best known as the delivery system used in the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines given to billions of people worldwide. Scientists are now exploring their potential far beyond ...

Everyone knows scientists are in the business of “discovering” things. But what exactly do they do? When I was growing up in ...

Human brain cells are now interacting with computer systems, learning to play video games like Doom. Researchers have ...

J ohn Moult remembers the time he was floored by an algorithm. Moult, one of the organizers of the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competitions and a computational biologist ...

Gene editing has made huge leaps in recent years, such as treating the congenital blood disorders sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia, which can require lifelong blood transfusions. But scientists ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells. When you ...

A few years ago, Caetano Reis e Sousa, an immunologist at The Francis Crick Institute, and his team were investigating how the immune system detects tissue damage. They were specifically exploring the ...

RED HOOK, Brooklyn (PIX11) — Experiments, robots and demonstrations filled the gym at Summit Academy Charter School in Red Hook, where students became teachers and scientists during a new day-long ...

Students in Riverside and San Bernardino counties have their projects judged as they vie to move on to the next level of ...