New research suggests that the origins of life may be tied not only to deep-sea hydrothermal vents but also to environments created by meteor impacts.

In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports ...

Camillo Golgi (1843–1926) delivered his 1906 Nobel lecture The Neuron Doctrine – Theory and Facts1 before the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in the presence of his Nobel co-laureate Santiago ...

Magnetic rocks with iron oxide concentrations act as natural chroniclers of Earth's past continental movements. Using small ...

Conservation levels of gene expression abundance ratios are globally coordinated in cells, and cellular state changes under such biologically relevant stoichiometric constraints are readable as ...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal is often referred to as the ‘father of modern neuroscience’ due to his studies on microscopic anatomy, ...

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There is something quietly humbling about standing before an ancient artifact and realizing, with all of our satellites, ...

Though, if you're American, there's a reasonable chance it might be injured.

I saw the Emperor — this world-soul [Weltseele] — riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, ...

The brain relies on real-time delivery of oxygen and nutrients through its microvasculature, which threads through neural tissue like electrical wires. While modern imaging technologies allow ...