A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, ...

Humans have always been fascinated by scales different than theirs, from giant objects such as stars, planets and galaxies, to the world of the tiny: insects, bacteria, viruses and other microscopic ...

Using fruit flies as a model species, researchers will study how individual differences in genetic background and diet can influence susceptibility to metabolic diseases.

Countless studies have sought to quantify various aspects of human impacts on the planet, but sorting through that data to get answers about the effect we're actually having can be a challenge for ...

Man wearing a face mask. Image by Tim Sandle. Man wearing a face mask. Image by Tim Sandle. Human, animal, and environmental health are not three different or independent forms of health. Instead, ...

Spurred by the current climate crisis, there has been a heightened attention within the scientific community in recent years to how past climate variation contributed to historic human migration and ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the "dark genome" that are responsible for controlling how cells sense and respond to the ...

Introduction / Christopher S. Jazwa and Jennifer E. Perry -- The ecological, environmental, and cultural contexts for island archaeology / Christopher S. Jazwa and Jennifer E. Perry -- Points in space ...

Human-robot interactions not only allow robots to interact with humans but also with the environment. Microrobots, for instance, can interact with insects and measure the force exerted by them during ...