A farmer in Niger learns how to protect his crops from insects. A resident of Port-au-Prince or a rural Haitian village learns how to avoid exposure to cholera. An entrepreneur in Mali gets ...

Researchers have revealed an astonishing technique that can track individual cells in an animal as it grows. They have created a stunning animation recreating a animal embryos growing, where each cell ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois may not be unveiling a major technological breakthrough, but their "Scientific Animations Without Borders" initiative could inspire a paradigm shift in the ...

In their May 2015 Scientific American article “Cellular Small Talk,”Dale W. Laird, Paul D. Lampe and Ross G. Johnson report on recent discoveries showing that the disruption of cellular structures ...

A team of Boston and California laboratories presents compelling evidence that a specific chemical modification or “tag” on messenger RNA is a key player in determining the ability of embryonic stem ...

When Robert A. Lue considers the “Star Wars” Death Star, his first thought is not of outer space, but inner space. “Luke’s initial dive into the Death Star, I’ve always thought, is a very interesting ...