Why do some systems collapse suddenly after what seems like a minor disturbance? A single transmission line failure can ...

A virus that is big enough to be seen under an ordinary light microscope co-opt its host’s systems with the help of ...

A novel method to manipulate the inner structure of cells connects several scientific fields and could represent a significant step in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's ...

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

With the exception of infectious diseases, examination of the environmental causes of illness has been piecemeal. Gary Miller, a toxicologist at Columbia University who also addressed the meeting, ...

Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...

How can we explain the new and simultaneous presence of worms, notoriously slow animals, in gardens distant from each other ...

Below the surface, Greenland’s ice appears to be churning up, a process one scientist described as akin to a “boiling pot of pasta” ...

The atomic structural analysis also revealed the role of the so-called capping enzyme. It is stably integrated into the complex and ensures that the newly formed viral mRNA is immediately provided ...

Five Carnegie Mellon University faculty members are among the 126 recipients of 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor early career scholars whose achievements put them among the best scientific ...

Scientists in China have unveiled a breakthrough way to mass-produce powerful cancer-fighting immune cells in the lab. By engineering early-stage stem cells from cord blood—rather than trying to ...

Adrian Bejan’s new book explores how natural laws of physics give rise to the tremendous amount of diversity seen in the ...