The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the essence of life. You’re the earliest known life form. There’s no food around ...

Three 2026 Breakthrough Prize winners reflect on developing Luxturna, a gene therapy that treats blindness caused by rare ...

American diplomats sharing their impressions of the dramatic early years of Central Asia’s independence from the Soviet Union. These memoirs were written at the invitation of the DavisCenter for ...

In a polarized world, it can be easy to demonize people with different views. We assume they will never evolve to align with us. Or we bombard them with facts and statistics in hopes of changing their ...

PNAS recently published credulous nonsense about acupuncture so bad that I thought it couldn't be topped. "Hold my beer!" ...

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The Oregon Film Museum in Astoria sits inside an actual historic jail, and it’s basically the coolest thing you didn’t know you needed to visit. Let’s talk about Astoria for a second, because this ...

Cell walls are a crucial structure of plant life, protecting cells from damage, giving plants shape, and containing ...

Microglia, the immune cells that protect the brain, are thought to maintain a healthy brain environment by removing unwanted substances through dynamic remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton, the cell's ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

A team at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) has uncovered a previously unrecognized molecular ...