WASHINGTON—Why, wondered Erich Bloch soon after he became director of the National Science Foundation in 1984, couldn’t scien tists submit their grant proposals to NSF electronically? What Bloch had ...

With 550 projects on show at this year’s BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in Dublin, a selection of students explained all about their research in the following video. First up is ...

A circuit is a closed loop containing various components. Electrical current flows around the circuit. Scientists use symbols to represent the different components in a circuit. Symbols are simplified ...

Di Bernardo’s DIMERCIRCUITS integrates AI and synthetic biology to advance precision gene therapy At the heart of this high-impact research lies a bold technological ambition: to develop programmable ...

With support from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases Research Award Fund, Fralin Biomedical ...

Scientists have known for a century that female animals become more active just as they are about to ovulate, a behavior that evolved to enhance their chances of mating when they are fertile. Now, a ...

Scientists have uncovered a brain circuit in primates that rapidly detects faces. The findings help not only explain how primates sense and recognize faces, but could also have implications for ...

Hugging, holding hands and caressing give us a psychological boost that is known to be important for emotional well-being and healthy development. But until now, it has been unclear why we derive ...