Scientists have zapped mice and rats into a suspended-animation-like state called torpor. The state was induced by beaming ultrasound waves into a precise spot in the rodent's brains. This technique ...

Cassini/Huygens scientists have discovered exactly where on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Huygens probe landed last January. Knowing the landing location will allow ...

This is the first time that brain tissue has been cryogenically frozen and revived without damage. In a process called vitrification, researchers treated slices of mouse brains with cryoprotectants ...