Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Developed by Tsutomu Miyasaka in 2009, perovskite solar cells emerged as a breakthrough in photovoltaics and a promising ...

The development of humans and other animals unfolds gradually over time, with cells taking on specific roles and functions via a process called cell fate determination. The fate of individual cells, ...

Living cells cool much slower than our current understanding of heat conduction can explain, according to new research from the University of Tokyo. Researchers have used two techniques—high-speed ...

Scientists have discovered a protein in mosses that may have enabled the first plants to grow upward on dry land.

Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's ...

A cross-section of the spinal cord showing neurons and glial cells. (Juan Carlos Juarez Jaramillo/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A ...

Every person walking around right now is running a construction project of staggering scale. Roughly 330 billion cells die ...