Volunteers played a key part in validating a gigantic neuroscience study mapping the fruit-fly brain. It shows what can be ...

Age impedes the ability of the brain’s stem cells to churn out new cells, but the study’s authors found that reducing the ...

Seung and Murthy say that they’ve been developing the FlyWire map for more than four years, using electron microscopy images of slices of the fly’s brain. The researchers and their colleagues stitched ...

Physicists have identified new forms of γ-ray radiation created inside thunderclouds, and shown that levels of γ-ray production are much higher on Earth than previously thought.

Daring flights in an old spy plane observe powerful type of radiation that could help explain the cause of lightning.

Using creative approaches and next-generation tools, these researchers hope to shed light on long-standing mysteries in ...

As development of the technology accelerates, countries are weighing the costs and benefits of how they regulate it.

Fieldwork can be deadly: heads of expeditions must be taught how to cope in a crisis.

Pulses of light and sound seem to have beneficial effects. But some argue it is too soon to market experimental devices.

Therapeutic T cells used to treat acute myeloid leukaemia secrete proteins that impair the cells’ own ability to attack ...

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Pathogenic viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria thrive on plastic. The biohazard risks of this ‘plastisphere’ shouldn’t ...