A part of the brain that is about the size of a sunflower seed in people could play a big role in our food consumption ...

Scientists have uncovered how a newly discovered gene, NEK1, in which mutations have been linked to ALS cases, disrupts the function of the motor neuron and causes it to degenerate and die.

Nucleons, which include protons and neutrons, are the composite particles that make up atomic nuclei. While these particles have been widely studied in the past, their internal structure has not yet ...

Record-breaking Rf-252: Researchers produce shortest-lived superheavy nucleus and measure its subsequent decay by Universitaet Mainz Editors' notes ...

The functions of biomolecules, including lipids, nucleic acids and especially proteins are determined to a great extent by their structure. This ...

Scientists at Delft University of Technology have managed to watch a single atomic nucleus flip its magnetic state in real time. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, they indirectly read the nucleus ...