All living things emit a faint glow. Could this light be useful?
In 2025, quantum physicist Daniel Oblak and his colleagues published images of mice that made headlines around the…
Creases as information bottlenecks in active elastic sheets
Odell, G. M., Oster, G., Alberch, P. & Burnside, B. The mechanical basis of morphogenesis: I. Epithelial folding…
How Flocking Birds “Defy” One of Physics’ Most Fundamental Laws
Flocks of birds, bacteria and tissue cells: in some collective systems, the individual elements respond to only part…
Scientists Discover Sperm Seem To Bypass a Fundamental Law of Physics
Human sperm cells may swim by exploiting unusual “odd elasticity” within their flagella, helping them move through highly…
A Strange Quantum Effect May Explain One of Biology’s Greatest Mysteries
Researchers have uncovered a possible explanation for why living systems repeatedly choose one molecular form instead of its…
The hydrodynamic torque dipole from rotary bacterial flagella powers symmetric discs
Bacteria are torque dipoles and swim in circles As our observations were performed near the bottom of a…
The surprising science behind red-light therapy — and how it really works
In 2021, dermatologist David Ozog was on holiday with his family in the Bahamas, when his 18-year-old son…
This Fungus Can Make Water Freeze
Fungi are truly weird and impressive—they can live anywhere, be poisonous or medicinal, and, reportedly, transform plastic waste…
Scientists revive activity in frozen mouse brains for the first time
A ‘cryosleep pod’ in the 1979 science-fiction film Alien.Credit: 20TH CENTURY FOX via AJ Pics/Alamy A familiar trope…
How fast does a protein fold? Real-time technique captures the moment
It can take less than a microsecond for proteins (artist’s impression) to fold into their 3D shapes.Credit: Christoph…