Credit: Graphic by Julie McMahon CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers report in the journal Science that they can increase plant productivity...

ANCIENT MAIZE Genome sequence of a 5,310-year-old maize cob provides new insights into the early stages of maize domestication. The...

Researchers have identified a way to manipulate photosynthesis in plants to increase both their light-harvesting ability and biomass production. As...

Credit: Lauriebeth Leonelli and Matthew Brooks/UC Berkeley Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by as much as 20 percent...

Despite the vast diversity of organisms on the planet that express enzymes for the conversion of carbon dioxide into such...

Credit: Credit: Dr. Vikram Ravi/Caltech and Dr. Ryan Shannon/ICRAR-Curtin/CSIRO A brief but brilliant burst of radiation that travelled at least...

Scientists studying the Chicxulub crater have shown how large asteroid impacts deform rocks in a way that may produce habitats...

Credit: Courtesy of V. Ravi/Caltech Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are mysterious flashes of radio waves originating outside our Milky...

Credit: Photo by Kurt Stepnitz EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University researchers, for the first time, have identified how...

EUGENE, Ore. -- (Nov. 17, 2016) -- Way before trees or lichens evolved, soils on Earth were alive, as revealed...

Credit: Nature Research LA JOLLA--(November 17, 2016) The Salk Institute ranks second in the world for high-quality, high-impact scientific collaborations...

Credit: Photo courtesy UW-Madison/Stephanie Precourt. MADISON, WIs. -- Computer chips in development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could make future...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Glioblastoma multiforme remains the most common and highly lethal brain cancer and is known for...

Credit: Dana-Farber BOSTON -- Researchers leading the largest genomic tumor profiling effort of its kind say such studies are technically...

A new study has found that women have better brainpower after menopause if they had their last baby after age...

Credit: ORNL/University of Oklahoma Supercomputer simulations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have played a key role...

Johns Hopkins Medicine specialists report they have developed a urine test for the likely emergence of cervical cancer that is...

Credit: Image: Drs C. Varnai and P. Fraser, © The Babraham Institute 2016. A team of Cambridge researchers led by...

Researchers led by Peter Carmeliet (VIB-KU Leuven) have found a novel way to normalize the dysfunctional blood vessels that are...

Credit: Photo Courtesy Washington Department of Transportation. RENO, Nev. - A bridge that bends in an strong earthquake and not...