An artist's impression of Aratasaurus museunacionali. (Maurilio Oliveira/CC BY 4.0) We've found plenty of dinosaur bones. We've found their teeth, skin, feathers, eggs, and even their poop. And now, ...

A dinosaur that breathed its last breath in the middle of the Cretaceous may have left behind more than a mould of its bones, ...

For decades, ribosomes have been under the lens of many scientists. Ribosomes are highly sophisticated and complex molecular ...

Living cells in human milk handle nutrients in different ways, nanoscale imaging reveals, offering a closer look at milk ...

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The proteins that give plants their shape and structure are also involved in ...

Volvox parent spheroid: Numerous individual cells can be seen across the entire surface as magenta-colored dots. Developing daughter spheroids appear as a few larger clusters with very small dots. The ...

Biomedical research typically follows a familiar path: developing treatments that block, enhance or mutate certain signaling pathways, genes or proteins to change the function of different cells in ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has shown that nerve ...

Jack Challoner, Gills of a fish-like invertebrate (all images courtesy Jack Challoner, from ‘The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life‘) In 1665, when British polymathic scientist Robert ...

More than 1.5 billion years ago, a momentous thing happened: Two small, primitive cells became one. Perhaps more than any event—barring the origin of life itself—this merger radically changed the ...