"We think we can make something better or find out what is going on in this interesting area if we try a bunch of things and apply several sophisticated techniques to study this." These proposals are ...

New experimental results have cast doubt on earlier proposals suggesting that spherical, cell-like membranes could form in ...

The results of a study in mice by scientists at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and at the Nathan Kline Institute suggest that a breakdown in how brain cells rid themselves of waste precedes the build ...

Engineers have developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials. Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental ...

Recent speculations propose that nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) may serve as additional receptors for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to the host cells – also ...

How do scientists come up with new ideas? Brain scans show that scientific creativity requires the brain’s imagination, control, and switching networks to actively communicate to generate and evaluate ...

In his bestselling 2005 book Collapse, Jared Diamond offered the societal collapse of Easter Island (aka Rapa Nui), around 1600, as a cautionary tale. Diamond essentially argued that the destruction ...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas makes little or no insulin. The details on the events that occur during autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic beta-cells have ...

Human cravings for booze may have deep evolutionary roots, a new study has shown. The study, published in Science Advances, involved observing the eating behaviors of chimpanzees—"our closest living ...

Researchers have some new evidence about what makes birds make so much noise early in the morning, and it's not for some of the reasons they previously thought. For decades, a dominant theory about ...

"We think we can make something better or find out what is going on in this interesting area if we try a bunch of things and apply several sophisticated techniques to study this." These proposals are ...