CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Living cells are capable of performing complex computations on the environmental signals they encounter. These computations can be continuous, or analogue, in nature -- the way eyes…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Most people encounter most things by sensing them in multiple ways. As we hear the words people speak, we also see their lips move. We smell, see and hear the…

Heralded on the cover of Time magazine in 2000 as a genetically modified (GMO) crop with the potential to save millions of lives in the Third World, Golden Rice is still years - and millions of…

Each injury means a little more as individuals age -- more impact and more healing time. A group of scientists and dermatologists are now looking at the role sweat glands play in how aging skin…

Eight days. That's how long it takes for skin cells to reprogram into red blood cells. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues at Center of Regenerative Medicine in…

June 2, 2016 - Visual blurring -- like that produced by bifocals or multifocal lenses -- may cause errors in foot position when walking. And that could contribute to the risk of tripping and falling…

It has been established that not all cancer cells are equally aggressive -- most can be neutralised with radiation and chemotherapy. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered that…

Despite the foul weather that has sieged central Europe in the past few days, with floods, destruction, even deaths, and the occasional evacuation of the auditorium where physicists discussed their…

Men still outperform women in undergraduate introductory biology tests and humanities scholars are scrambling to blame the tests. And the wealth of families. Anything except the fact that on…

Infant formula was the great liberator for working moms who wanted to have careers but in the last decade there has been a backlash against it, often adopting the veil of scientific legitimacy. But…