This technique allows samples to be frozen at -200°C to trap membranes in their native state, which can then be observed under an electron microscope. The scientists used baker's yeast (Saccharomyces ...

A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire ...

A short-term memory circuit, for example, will remain in a single preferred state until a new stimulus comes along, causing ...

The efforts of these insects allow them to break down large amounts of animal waste, return nutrients to the soil, eliminate ...

Zebrafish, photographed with confocal microscope. The brain region that controls eye movement is structurally similar in fish and mammals, but the zebrafish system contains only 500 neurons, making it ...

A study using zebrafish reveals how brainstem neural networks guide eye movement, offering a new model that mimics these networks to predict their activity, potentially aiding eye disorder treatments ...

Zebrafish, photographed with confocal microscope. The brain region that controls eye movement is structurally similar in fish ...

In addition to shedding light on how the brain handles short-term memory, the findings could lead to novel approaches for treating eye movement disorders. Organisms are constantly taking in an array ...

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It's been a puzzle that has stumped humanity for ages. However, an ancient cellular ...

Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz first became intrigued by malaria when he was a young boy in South Africa. His father, who scouted ...

In the modern world, our ability to visualize and understand the inner workings of living organisms has been significantly ...

The findings are the first to quantify how much work goes into switching on chromatophores, the specialized color-changing ...