A new protein sensor lets researchers see incoming brain signals, revealing how neurons process information tied to memory ...

When infected by a fungal disease, ant pupae actively emit a chemical cue that prompts workers to get rid of them for the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Living organisms utilize sophisticated chemical signaling to share information, locate mates, and defend territories. Harnessing similar abilities could revolutionize robotic ...

What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical signaling that powers the simplest organisms? Researchers at the University ...

Learn more about the “glue sniffer” protein, which is able to detect brain cells’ incoming chemical signals, and what that ...

A new research study finds infected ant pupae emit a chemical signal that prompts workers to kill them. The behavior prevents ...

The Secret Language of Plant Stress Signals When plants face stress, they activate a signaling cascade involving multiple ...

Huge swarms of migratory locusts take on the proportions of natural disasters and threaten the food supply of millions of people, especially in Africa and Asia. As the eighth of the ten biblical ...

Humans have a far smarter sense of smell than is commonly understood. The human olfactory system picks up chemical signals, or chemosignals, emitted by other mammals that don’t have a perceptible ...