Dynamin is a protein that plays a central role in endocytosis—the process where cells internalize substances by wrapping them ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like ...

AT&T and SpaceX were both spectral beneficiaries of EchoStar’s recent exit from the commercial cellular space, but the CEO of ...

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A ...

UC Santa Barbara Physicist Boris Shraiman has led an intellectually peripatetic career, to great satisfaction, success and acclaim.

Topics range from malformations of the cerebral cortex to restoring diversity in our diet / Approximately €82 million for the first funding period ...