Thanks to modern therapies, a cancer diagnosis is no longer an automatic death sentence. But many patients still suffer from ...

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...

RIKEN researchers have discovered how an enzyme modifies gene expression by targeting certain stretches of messenger RNA ...

Anyone who has seen a hummingbird poking her beak deep into a trumpet creeper blossom, or a honeyeater using its brush-tipped ...

We all know we live in three-dimensional space. But what does it mean when people talk about four dimensions? Is it just a ...

A new study examining small-scale farming in Tanzania argues that major agricultural development initiatives, including the ...

Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages. The 575–560-million-year-old (Ma) Avalon Assemblage is best known from ...

Future devices will continue to probe the frontier of the very small, and at scales where functionality depends on mere atoms, even the tiniest flaw matters. Researchers at Rice University have shown ...

Along with forests, grasslands and wetlands are also being converted to cropland and pasture at an increasing rate around the world—often for livestock farming and the export of agricultural products.

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

A new academic study suggests that global IT strategies are often adapted at local level—and that understanding why requires ...

New research has revealed that the Old Irish Goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in Ireland during the ...