Abstractions blog

Three U.S. biologists share the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research into the molecular mechanism that drives circadian rhythm.

The color of LED lights is controlled by a clumsy process. A new mathematical discovery may make it easier for us to get the hues we want.

"Organoid" brain tissue models grown in a lab for two years can help scientists study a critical period of development just before and after birth.

Even as the solar eclipse was mesmerizing millions, astronomers were training their space- and land-based telescopes on a far more violent astrophysical event.

It’s “a definitive study for all time, like writing the final book,” says one researcher who’s mapping out new classes of geometric structures.

To create a good living replica of the human brain, your best hope may be to let “organoid” components assemble it for you.

Astronomers thought that all Type Ia supernovas shine with the same brightness, making them incredibly useful cosmic yardsticks. But uncertainty over what causes these explosions has led researchers to reconsider their assumptions.

New techniques expose unexpected diversity within seemingly uniform tissues.

A California housewife who in the 1970s discovered four new types of tessellating pentagons is dead at 94.