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Calyces (left) resemble the base of flower petals. These cells help the brain perceive sound and locate where it's coming from. On the right, the labyrinth of the inner ear, which contains the sensory ...

Elaine R.S. Hodges, who combined art with science in her meticulous drawings of insects and other organisms as a scientific illustrator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, died ...

Asking scientists what career they would have pursued if they hadn’t gone into science is a crapshoot: It can either stop the conversation cold or uncork misty-eyed reminiscences about the road not ...

In 1906, the two Nobel laureates in medicine brought their hostilities to the prize ceremony. Italy's introverted Camillo Golgi used his speech in front of the King of Sweden to launch a vicious ...