O'Shaughnessy Ventures LLC (OSV), an investment firm that empowers creators, has awarded a $100,000 O'Shaughnessy Fellowship to Benjamin Arya, an Australian scientist and bioengineer based in Boston, ...

Cambridge researchers are working to undo a longstanding male bias in health research, to help drive more effective ...

Discover how the new technique of HSMP can help scientists gain insights into the world of biological processes and their ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast instruction manual tells our cells to do. Most of the genome remains mysterious, ...

The mind-controlling “zombie” fungus, which inspired the video game and post-apocalyptic TV show The Last of Us, emerged about 133 million years ago when dinosaurs roamed Earth, research has found. In ...

Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?

Today, these microbial partners work in the soil across millions of acres of farmland worldwide, helping farmers grow more ...

What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

An international publication led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory highlights how upgrading current plankton models is critical to ...

Data from 32 studies concluded that the impact of exercise is modest in terms of meaningful weight loss. Caloric restriction ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...

Food-grade compressor oils, such as those based on polyalphaolefin (PAO) or polyalkylene glycol (PAG) synthetic base stocks, ...