“Time flies,” “time waits for no one,” “as time goes on”: The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some sort of real process that happens out there in the world. We inhabit the present moment and move through time, even as events come and go, fading into the past.
But go ahead and...
Delivering a connection-building protein to star-shaped cells in the brain could reverse changes to neural circuits[1] seen in Down syndrome, according to new research my colleagues and I published in the journal Cell Reports.
Down syndrome[2] is caused by an error in cell division during development. Individuals receive three copies of...
In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields[1] control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests and devices that purify cancer drugs. In an electric field, anything with an electrical charge – from an individual atom to a large particle – experiences a force that can be used to push it in a desired...
People often take walking for granted. We just move, one step after another, without ever thinking about what it takes to make that happen. Yet every single step is an extraordinary act of coordination, driven by precise timing between spinal cord, brain, nerves, muscles and joints.
Historically, people have used stopwatches, cameras or...