Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But ...

Researchers have widely accepted that what sets humans apart from nonhuman primates are prefrontal cortex–driven behaviors ...

Once the team made MuMuTAs work, they used five of them to actuate multi-jointed fingers in a robotic hand.

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

Google DeepMind has unveiled two AI models, Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, designed to enhance robot control. Gemini Robotics features “vision-language-action” (VLA) capabilities, enabling it ...

Sign stealing in baseball. Match fixing in soccer. Doping allegations in swimming. Now ski jumping has its own scandal.

The human brain remains one of the greatest mysteries in science, controlling virtually every function in the body.

How well do you know your body? For centuries, the human body has been studied in great detail, yet researchers continue to ...

I’ve never been a huge fan of slathering my arms and legs with heavy creams. Instead, I prefer body cream’s lighter alternative, body oil, which absorbs quickly, locks in moisture, and leaves ...

Human beings can’t be fully understood through a single discipline. This unique BSc allows you to combine life sciences with social and historical sciences to pursue your own lines of enquiry – and ...

What is the immune system? The immune system works to keep germs and other foreign substances out of the body and destroy any that get in. It's made up of a complicated network of cells and organs. It ...

Using an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers have created a four-dimensional brain map that reveals how lesions similar to those seen in human MS form. These findings provide a window ...