Discoveries

The chemical 'sloppiness' of ancient iron reactions may explain why cells evolved precise antioxidant enzymes.

Your cells may use a protein cage to trap a tiny chemical reactor that could otherwise burn them from the inside.

Ancient rock chemistry maps may predict exactly when and where iron triggers cell death.

A geology chemistry tool reveals when iron becomes deadly in cell death — but only at the very last moment.

Bacteria may hijack their own toxin to trigger iron-releasing cell death — then steal the iron for themselves.

Bacteria may hijack cells' own self-destruction machinery by coordinating a toxic chemical one-two punch.

Your body's iron control system may run on a clock synced to mealtimes — and we've never actually checked.

Your body clock may tune a fragile iron protein to control how mitochondria absorb calcium — and how fast you age.

Your body's iron-handling machinery may keep time with the biological clock — with big implications for metabolism.

Iron-sulfur chemistry in brain cells may secretly keep our biological clocks ticking.

Your body's iron supply to energy-making machinery may rise and fall with the time of day.

Your body's daily clock may secretly control how cells build the iron-sulfur machines that power your metabolism.

Your body's daily clock may secretly control how cells build their iron-sulfur power cores.

Your body's iron-sulfur chemistry might be secretly keeping your internal clock on time.

Wounds may create invisible 'whirlpools' in tissue that act as GPS coordinates for stem cells rebuilding skin.

Electrical signals in developing tissue may sculpt gene activity by flipping molecular droplets on or off like a switch.

The spots where mini-organs sprout their first buds may be predictable using the same math that explains tennis ball seams.

Intestinal crypt splitting may be triggered by the same physics that governs swirling patterns in liquid crystals.

Tiny acid pockets near cellular pumps may sculpt protein blobs that tell embryos how to grow.

Your brain's daily acid rhythm may be what keeps toxic protein clumps from forming — and aging breaks that rhythm.

When tissue tears, a voltage-driven wave may dissolve tiny molecular droplets to kickstart healing genes.

The same hormone that helps plants survive heat stress might protect coral reefs from bleaching.

Warmer nights may stop corals from producing a crucial stress-shield hormone, accelerating bleaching.

Could a plant sleep hormone help coral reefs survive rising ocean temperatures?

Could the same hormone that helps plants survive stress also protect coral reefs from bleaching?

Sleep hormone's breakdown products may shield coral's photosynthetic machinery from deadly heat stress.

Could the same stress hormone that helps plants survive drought also protect coral reefs from heat-driven bleaching?