Unfortunately, there isn't an enzyme for many reactions we would sorely like to catalyze—things like digesting plastics or ...

Synthetic biologists have developed a prototype for an innovative biosensor that can detect rare earth elements and be modified for a range of other applications.

QUT researchers created a biosensor using engineered proteins to detect and extract rare earth elements, offering a potential ...

“Most termites live several meters deep and have no visual perception. However, harvester termites come out at dusk to ...

Adam Keating is a mechanical engineer who co-founded CoLab out of sheer frustration when he saw how engineers were being held ...

Yet only “Gray Tree” has scale-invariant branch diameters. When Mondrian removes the scale invariance in “Blooming Apple Tree ...

One of the most surprising PST Art and Science Collide exhibits was not at a museum or gallery, it was Cal Tech’s, Crossing ...

Dr Valter Longo, who is the director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California, has spent his ...

In the “Echoes of Time” series, modern technologies are placed within ancient forms and timeless contexts. An interplay ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a tree makes in a few thick branches versus many thin ones. Trees have evolved ...

This paper examines the potential of integrating neuroscience, biology, and artificial intelligence to revolutionize ...