Month: February 2022

For those of us who occasionally trip over a curb or bump into a door frame, it’s hard to imagine ...

Proteins are the “workhorses” in every living cell and constitute the chemical basis of life. These little machines are required ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECredit: Public domain image courtesy of Paul Webala FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A future vaccine providing protection against a ...

A specific group of fungi residing in the intestines can protect against intestinal injury and influence social behavior, according to ...

It is becoming increasingly clear that the human microbiome – the collection of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live on ...

WASHINGTON — Although solar cells are typically designed to turn light into power, researchers have shown that they can also ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system and the most common cause of neurological ...

MADISON – University of Wisconsin–Madison physicists have made one of the highest performance atomic clocks ever, they announced Feb. 16 ...

When Charles Darwin first codified the theory of evolution by means of natural selection, he thought of it as a ...

JILA physicists have measured Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, or more specifically, the effect called time dilation, at the ...

Until recently, experts considered it unlikely that the honeybee had survived as a wild animal in Europe. In a current ...

Osaka, Japan— T cells, also known as lymphocytes, have important roles in various immune reactions. However, there are only a ...

Annapolis, MD; February 16, 2022—A common refrain among biologists holds that the majority of Earth’s plant and animal species remain ...

The Salton Sea geothermal field in California potentially holds enough lithium to meet all of America’s domestic battery needs, with ...