Aquaculture is fast becoming integral to global food security and, to feed the world’s growing population, it is expected to...

Why do some 4- and 5-year-olds still nap like clockwork every afternoon, while other preschoolers start giving up habitual napping...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — In an age of industrialized farming and complex supply chains, the true environmental pressures of our...

An important signature of life is the existence of organic molecules that have originated from biological processes. The most common...

In most higher organisms, including humans, every cell carries two versions of each gene, which are referred to as alleles....

An improvement to a Nobel Prize-winning technology called a frequency comb enables it to measure light pulse arrival times with...

While cattle production has historically focused on increasing the feed efficiency of steers to produce a marketable beef product, researchers...

The Boxwood Blight Insight Group (BBIG) was awarded a Partnership Award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and...

By measuring the electrical fields near swarming honeybees, researchers have discovered that insects can produce as much atmospheric electric charge...

Molecular crystals—the building blocks that make up many drugs and other products—sometimes take on water molecules, which can alter the...

Skeletal muscle is the largest metabolic organ in the body. It is composed of muscle fibers, blood vessels, nerves and...

Small structures made out of carbons are a useful and versatile tool that can be used across industries, including water...

HOUSTON – (Oct. 24, 2022) – A Rice University lab is leading the effort to reveal potential threats to the...

Investigations in Japan have uncovered some molecular mechanisms behind mitochondrial dysfunction in chronic heart failure.Credit: Shingo Takada, Shintaro Kinugawa, Hisataka...

Knowing whether or not marine microbes engage in photosynthesis — the use of sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water...

Engineered particles of purified sand could be the next anti-obesity therapy as new research from the University of South Australia...

A research team, affiliated with UNIST has identified a new type of microglia associated with stroke in the ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)...

Rotem Sorek is a researcher at the Department of Molecular Genetics at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. His groundbreaking discoveries of the diversity...

The cognitive decline and memory loss observed in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is attributed to the accumulation of β-amyloid protein (Aβ),...

Mercury is a unique element that has found a myriad of scientific and practical applications throughout the centuries. Besides its...