Biology

A rice plant stalk on a bed of rice grains

RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50% more potatoes, rice

Tractography mouse

Researchers image an entire mouse brain for the first time

Argonne scientist Jessica L. Durham conducts research inside the Materials Engineering Research Facility

Learn about science, engineering in free public events for Argonne’s 75th anniversary

Aerial image of the Advanced Photon Source, a large circular building, with the Chicago skyline in the distance

Argonne National Laboratory celebrates 75 years of scientific discovery

fluroscent-marked images of two cells with internal structure visible

For the first time, researchers visualize metabolic process at the single-cell level

A research team at the University of Chicago is exploring how cells remember and respond to environmental pressure. In a simulated actin network, actin filaments start out randomly oriented (left) but align after pressure is applied (right).

UChicago scientists experiment with materials that can “remember”

Nurse holding an anesthesia mask

Low doses of ‘laughing gas’ could be effective in treating severe depression

Electron microscope image of a 3D sphere with tiny particles on its surface

UChicago scientists design ‘nanotraps’ to catch and clear coronavirus from tissue

Prof. Melody Swartz in laboratory

Exploiting cancer cells to aid in their own destruction

Salamander

How organisms filter out the noise to make accurate predictions