As organisms develop from embryos, groups of cells migrate and reshape themselves to form all manner of complex tissues.

Researchers at Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) and the Cancer Research Institute at Kanazawa University have ...

Scientists have developed molecular devices that can switch roles, behaving as memory, logic, or learning elements within the same structure. The breakthrough comes from precise chemical design that ...

The three-dimensional arrangement of atoms in a molecule is known as its molecular shape. This shape significantly influences a molecule's physical and chemical properties. Determining the molecular ...

It might be time to bid farewell to your forehead—the humble bang has never been more popular. Stats from Google suggest that we’re not just scouting out new bob hairstyles to try, but different kinds ...

Everyone hits the bad eyebrow phase at least once in their life. It's basically a rite of passage in the story of your face. And while this universal experience may not be widely appreciated (war ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Chiral gold nanostars show how molecular asymmetry transfers to high-symmetry nanoparticles, producing structures with distinctive optical behavior and enhanced molecular detection. (Nanowerk ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Beckley Park, a country estate in Oxfordshire, lies at the end of a narrow ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a ...

The scientific study of love has always been prone to a certain amount of controversy. Romantic love is a subject of endless fascination, but it is also sometimes seen as a bit of a frivolous topic ...