(Jonathan Knowles/Stone/Getty Images) If you think you know what DNA looks like, there may be a surprise hiding in your blood ...

An international team of researchers, including those at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science ...

The UK company DeepMind and its research partners have released predicted protein structures for nearly every protein expressed in the human body—more than 20,000 of them—for free online. The new ...

Scientists discovered that brain-cell axons may not be smooth tubes as textbooks have shown for more than a century, but instead naturally resemble strings of tiny pearls. Those pearl-like structures ...

In a study published in Science, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a spatial atlas of specialized immune structures, called tertiary lymphoid structures ...

Termites, ants, and hermit crabs build elaborate homes with no boss and no plan, and scientists are decoding how.

Metamaterials and metaoptics offer a broad dimension to explore exotic functionalities in physics and optics. In a new report now published in Science Advances, Jie Peng and a team of scientists in ...

It wasn’t until 1957 when scientists earned special access to the molecular third dimension. After 22 years of grueling experimentation, John Kendrew of Cambridge University finally uncovered the 3D ...

Sea urchin skeletons may owe some of their strength to a common geometric design. Urchin skeletons display “an incredible diversity of structures at the microscale, varying from fully ordered to ...

Load-bearing structures like bridges and shelters can be made with origami modules -- versatile components that can fold compactly and adapt into different shapes -- engineers have demonstrated. For ...