All living things emit a faint glow. Could this light be useful?
In 2025, quantum physicist Daniel Oblak and his colleagues published images of mice that made headlines around the…
A Sea Worm’s Incredible “Bio-Metal” Jaws May Belong to an Entirely New Class of Material
A cross-section of a bristle worm jaw sample with the indentation testing sites labeled 1 to 11. Credit:…
Creases as information bottlenecks in active elastic sheets
Odell, G. M., Oster, G., Alberch, P. & Burnside, B. The mechanical basis of morphogenesis: I. Epithelial folding…
How Flocking Birds “Defy” One of Physics’ Most Fundamental Laws
Flocks of birds, bacteria and tissue cells: in some collective systems, the individual elements respond to only part…
Scientists Discover Sperm Seem To Bypass a Fundamental Law of Physics
Human sperm cells may swim by exploiting unusual “odd elasticity” within their flagella, helping them move through highly…
A Strange Quantum Effect May Explain One of Biology’s Greatest Mysteries
Researchers have uncovered a possible explanation for why living systems repeatedly choose one molecular form instead of its…
Scientists Just Discovered the Hidden Trick That Keeps Your Cells Alive
Cells use a surprising “pearling” motion to evenly distribute mitochondrial DNA. This newly uncovered process may be key…
The hydrodynamic torque dipole from rotary bacterial flagella powers symmetric discs
Bacteria are torque dipoles and swim in circles As our observations were performed near the bottom of a…
A “Masterpiece” – For the First Time, Scientists Keep a Mammalian Cochlea Alive Outside the Body
In his final breakthrough, A. James Hudspeth’s team sustained a living sliver of mammalian cochlea ex vivo and…