Biologists at The Scripps Research Institute have conducted experiments on C. elegans roundworms and identified a brain hormone that selectively triggers fat burning in the gut, regardless of food intake and without any obvious side effects – and the findings could have implications for humans.​   Read more
Researchers have recently blasted through another quantum quandary, potentially bringing stability to the notoriously unstable world that exists in these computing systems. New Atlas spoke with one of the researchers to get more information about the potentially game-changing work.   Read more
Researchers claim to have created the first stable, replicating semisynthetic organism to contain an extra pair of artificial bases in its genetic code that are able to be passed from one generation to the next   Read more