Disrupting immune cell behavior may contribute to heart disease and failure, study shows

A new study provides evidence that when circulating anti-inflammatory white blood cells known as monocytes fail…

Motorized prosthetic arm can sense touch, move with your thoughts

Biomedical engineers are helping develop a prosthetic arm for amputees that can move with the person’s…

Cellular soldiers designed to kill cancer cells that get loose during surgery

Biomedical engineers have discovered a method to track down and kill escaping cancer cells during tumor…

The road to Scandinavia's bronze age: Trade routes, metal provenance, and mixing

The geographic origins of the metals in Scandinavian mixed-metal artifacts reveal a crucial dependency on British…

Advancing quantum materials, efficient communication networks

A new project exploring novel applications of superconducting resonators has discovered these systems may be used…

To understand a childhood brain tumor, researchers turn to single-cell analysis

Investigators have revealed the cells of origin for specific subtypes of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant…

Newly identified meningeal lymphatic vessels answers key questions about brain clearance

Meningeal lymphatic vessels at the skull base are found to be the major route for brain…

Volcanoes shaped the climate before humankind

Five large volcanic eruptions occurred in the early 19th century. They caused cooling and — as…

A new framework to study congenital heart defects

Researchers reveal for the first time the full spectrum of cells that come together to make…

Causes of multidecadal climate changes

A new reconstruction of global average surface temperature change over the past 2,000 years has identified…