A new paper argues that materials like wood, bacteria, and fungi belong to a newly identified class of matter, “hydration solids.” For decades, the fields of...
When asked to sign their name, comb their hair, or use a pair of scissors, most humans prefer to use one hand over the other. But...
New Caltech research is showing how devices implanted into people’s brains, called brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), could one day help patients who have lost their ability to...
The microbial world shapes essentially every facet of our lives. Whether they are in the soils where our food is grown, or the lungs of a...
Caltech researchers have discovered an unexpected role for a protein in human cells, solving a longstanding mystery about how the composition of mitochondrial membranes is regulated....