(Nanowerk News) The fact that humans and other living organisms can develop and grow from a single cell relies on a process called embryonic development. For healthy tissue to form, cells in the ...

Topology and phase transitions are crucial concepts in statistical mechanics, which is the branch of physics that deals with large systems of particles and their collective behavior. Recent research ...

At school, it's often presented as a tidy double helix but scientists are revealing the varied and intricate shapes of DNA molecules. DNA is a molecule found in just about every living cell. Because ...

Networks are an increasingly common way of summarizing complex systems, especially those in which interacting components transmit information. We here show that reintroducing motion and memory to ...