An artist’s rendering of a black hole like the one in the center of our galaxy. While the black disk in the center is the ...

Olive oil and water do not naturally mix. Water molecules are polar, having a net electric dipole moment due to the bend ...

From naive tourists taking selfies in a Chernobyl claw surrounded by deadly levels of radiation, to people casually holding ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP) use synchronised IDS industrial cameras to reconstruct plasma jet discharges in 3D, providing an experimental basis for ...

By 2050, scientists estimate that antibiotic-resistant infections will be associated with more than eight million deaths ...

In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, in collaboration with teams from the National University ...