Sitting above each kidney are two small endocrine glands about the size of walnuts. These are the adrenal glands, responsible ...

Researchers at Aarhus University have built a microscopic needle from DNA that can punch through a cell’s outer membrane and ...

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have built a new type of nanoparticle that triples the efficiency of CRISPR gene ...

Penn Engineers have redesigned a key component of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the delivery vehicles behind mRNA vaccines, to ...

The blobfish, once considered the ugliest animal in the world, has since had quite the redemption arc. Years after it was ...

R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term ...

A team in Germany has shown that mouse brain tissue can regain measurable signs of activity after being preserved in a ...

From whale hearts to giraffe tongues, explore how huge and tiny animal body parts really are, using everyday objects as your ...

Comb jellies – very simple, gelatinous creatures best-known for their hypnotic underwater light shows – first appeared in ...

The longest animal on Earth isn’t what you think. It’s a drifting, gelatinous predator whose reach reshapes how we define size, survival and life in the ocean.

The platypus has long been one of nature’s most bewildering creatures. It lays eggs. It has a duck-like bill and a ...