Jordana Cepelewicz

John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing lithium-ion batteries, “the hidden workhorses of the mobile era.”

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honors work elucidating how cells adjust to low oxygen levels.

Beneath our awareness, the brain lets certain kinds of stimuli automatically capture our attention by lowering the priority of the rest.

Origin-of-life researchers have usually studied the potential of pure starting materials, but messy chemical composites may kick-start life more effectively.

T-cells identify what belongs in the body by timing how long they can bind to it.

Two new studies show that the brain’s navigation system changes how it represents physical space to reflect personal experience.

As researchers delve deeper into the behavior of decentralized collective systems, they’re beginning to question some of their initial assumptions.

With the help of deep learning techniques, paleoanthropologists find evidence of long-lost branches on the human family tree.

Among these cave insects, the females evolved to have penises—twice. The reasons challenge common assumptions about sex.

As it becomes clear that the body’s cells have more diverse regenerative capabilities than expected, experts have had to reconsider their approach to stem cell research.