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

Daring flights in an old spy plane observe powerful gamma-ray flashes that could help explain the cause of lightning.

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

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

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

The parts of a 3D-printed device can be changed out, allowing for versatility as well as ultrahigh resolution.

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 ...

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 ...

The number of new drugs approved each year increased steadily in the first few years of the analysis period, and more than 40 ...

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.

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