When studying the spread of cancer or the behavior of a virus like the one that causes COVID-19, the irony is that working ...

Thanks to a serendipitous discovery and a lot of painstaking work, scientists can now build biohybrid molecules that combine the homing powers of DNA with the broad functional repertoire of proteins - ...

Astronauts perform so many out-of-this-world experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). They use a specially-built ...

From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners of this year's Ig Nobel ...

Teams from Cornell University and Florence University came together to usher in a new era of robotic development by fitting a ...

The biohybrid robot uses electrical signals from an edible type of mushroom called a king trumpet in order to move around and sense its environment. Developed by an interdisciplinary team from Cornell ...

Of course, eating fungus isn’t new. Mushrooms are a type of nutritious fungus. And fungi have been used for centuries to ...

Colourful science experiments are often much more engaging for younger children than less colourful activities. Adding colour to a lava lamp, volcano or density demonstration makes the activity feel ...

putting a culture of the edible mushroom species Pleurotus eryngii (also known as the king oyster mushroom) in control of a pair of vehicles, which can twitch and roll across a flat surface. Through a ...