First author Yuhua Tian, front, and senior author Jie Zheng in the Zheng lab on the UC Davis campus.  Description: Two people in lab coats wearing safety glasses stand beside laboratory equipment and ...

A review of microscopic colitis, a chronic, intermittent inflammatory bowel disease that predominantly affects older women and typically presents with frequent watery, non-bloody stools.

Scientists reveal how pairs interact in superconductors and discover an unexpected quantum pattern that challenges current ...

An international research team headed by scientists at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and at the Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, has shown that ...

Every second, millions of cells in your body divide in two. In the space of an hour, they duplicate their DNA and grow a web of protein fibers around it called a spindle. The spindle extends its many ...

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was an officer in the French army at the time of Napoleon, but also a physicist and mathematician. To help France win its wars, he did research on heat exchange and ways of ...

Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition offers a unique window into life under a microscope. A tardigrade, colloquially known as water bears, move around a volvox algae colony. Tardigrades are water ...

From secret mushroom worlds to extreme close-ups of cell motion, these photographs represent how, in science, things often aren't what they seem on the surface. Reading time 3 minutes What you see ...