The single-celled Stentor coeruleus learns through CaMKII-driven protein modification, mirroring mechanisms found in the human brain.

Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells—much less a brain—can behave ...

Dr Peter Verheyen, Sola Society and Academy at Vienna University, discusses intriguing research and discoveries related to ...

As Paul Mischel of Stanford University describes in a paper in this week’s Cell, some cancer cells refuse to play along.

As global warming accelerates, extreme heat waves are causing widespread death of tropical reef corals. Most corals rely on ...

At the root of our family tree is a 600-million-year-old cyclops. Biologists from Lund University in Sweden recently ...

Scientists discovered a vitamin A pathway that repairs myelin, raising hope for multiple sclerosis and brain injury ...

This octopus survives in plain sight. Here’s how it adapts its body in real time to mirror dangerous species and navigate one ...

Genome duplication probably gave biodiversity a decisive evolutionary boost. A Chinese-German research team led by Axel Meyer from the University of Konstanz has now investigated the early phases of ...

Fermeate uses optogenetics—precise control of gene expression with light—to turbocharge productivity in bioreactors, with ...

This octopus survives in plain sight. Here’s how it adapts its body in real time to mirror dangerous species and navigate one ...

How do we learn to avoid bad food? Researchers found that fat cells signal the brain using dopamine to trigger "conditioned ...