Step onto any household or commercial weighing scale, and suddenly your weight magically appears in neat digital numbers. But how does a simple platform know exactly how much you weigh down to a tenth ...

Cell culturing is hard work. Because it's a highly technical process, there's a lot that can go wrong when you take cells from one source and manipulate them in another, from contamination to ...

Electricity has always been central to how life works, from the firing of neurons to the beating of the heart, but new ...

Stem cells are packed with possibility. Embryonic or “pluripotent” stem cells have superpowers: They can give rise to various organs or tissue cells, or instead divide and renew themselves. Meanwhile, ...

As regular readers of Unix Insider probably know, Peter Galvin has abdicated as Unix Insider‘s security czar to start a new system administration column for this magazine. Following Peter’s lead, this ...