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 ...

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

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 ...

Giant clams (Tridacna gigas), members of the family Tridacnidae and among the most striking inhabitants of tropical coral ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact ...

The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit ...