A Harvard study shows that soft materials, like gels and biological tissue, support boat wake-like surface waves. Because ...

Science has long taken inspiration from the natural world, and few natural designs are as iconic as the helical shape that ...

A new study by scientists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) shows that when a pressure disturbance ...

Slime molds are yellow, oozing, amoeba-like organisms often found on decaying logs and in moist areas. They have no neurons ...

Discover how a self-organizing “pencil beam” laser could allow for faster and more precise biomedical imaging.

Functional coatings improve polymer surfaces by adding barrier protection, chemical resistance, hydrophobicity, conductivity, ...

Teemu Miettinen discusses his innovative method for measuring intracellular water, revealing its critical role in cell ...

Human consciousness took billions of years to evolve, but in the next 10 to 15 years, it may have company in the form of ...

Researchers have developed a microscale organic-inorganic hybridization strategy integrating biosafety, physiological ...

MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that's ...

Synthetic materials rarely mimic the dynamic helicity observed in biological systems like DNA and proteins, often forming ...

Tufts University researchers are using AI and machine learning to more quickly identify potential narrow-spectrum antibiotics ...