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Commercial harvesting of plants may have forced them to evolve to camouflage and evade humans.

Xiaomeng Han is a graduate student in the Harvard Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience. She uses electron microscopy to study neuronal connectivity. Cover image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay This biography is part of our “Picture a Scientist”…

by Xiaomeng Han Chien-Shiung Wu In the spring of 1912, a baby girl was born to a family in China. It was the family’s tradition that all the boys in the generation have the character “Chien” in their first names, followed by characters from the…

by Wei Lifigures by Rebecca Senft If you’ve ever taken an organic chemistry class, you may know that making chemical compounds can be a long and painful process. Bacteria, however, face no such struggles. After millions of years, these tiny microbes…

by Mary Mayfigures by Aparna Nathan People have been eating and drinking fermented foods since long before we understood how to cultivate the yeast and bacteria that make them. As anyone who’s cultivated a sourdough starter can attest, the…

Novel delivery system enables CRISPR-based genome editing therapy to kill cancer cells in mouse models.

Resilient lizards have adapted to cold spells spurred by climate change.

Matt Yeh is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Applied Physics program at Harvard University. He is interested in studying how light-matter interaction can be used for quantum information science. Jovana Andrejevic is a fifth-year Applied Physics Ph.D.…

by Matthew Yeh Donna Strickland during Nobel press conference, 2018 Ever wondered how laser eye surgery can be so precise, or how scientists can study processes that unravel over a billionth of a billionth of a second? Donna Strickland has got you…

Jupiter's moon Europa might not need the sun's rays to glow. If so, its color will shed light on the chemistry of the ocean world.