By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

Scientists are paving the way for an artificial nervous system for robotics, utilizing artificial neurons that replicate brain cell behavior.

Engineers in Switzerland have built light-emitting diodes so small that hundreds could line up across the width of a single ...

For more than a century, scientists have wrestled with a deceptively simple question: how do you cool living tissue to ...

All cells need to sense and respond to their environment, to know when to activate genes, build proteins, and carry out their ...

Scientists in Melbourne have discovered how tiny electrical pulses can steer stem cells as they grow, opening the door to new ...

Scientists in Melbourne have discovered how tiny electrical pulses can steer stem cells as they grow, opening the door to new ...

Metroid Prime, up until this week’s Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, at least, is mostly free of spoken dialogue — especially when it ...

A new children’s book, titled Simple Machines Made Simple, wants to demystify mechanical engineering for kids as young as a year old. It recently beat its Kickstarter goal by 700%—raising more than ...

While we tend to think we know ourselves pretty well, the human body still has all sorts of ways to surprise us. The truth is ...

Just ahead of the third instalment of Hideki Kamiya's stylish action game series, PlatinumGames revealed that Taylor — who ...

Next week sees 22 new games and bundles heading to the PlayStation platform.