New research from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators shows why some drugs in clinical trials for treating a form of acute ...

The rise of dinosaurs coincided with environmental changes driven by major volcanic eruptions over 230 million years ago, a new ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Although female giraffes have closer “friends” than male giraffes, male giraffes have more “acquaintances” than females, according ...

SAN ANTONIO (September 27, 2021) – A version of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, has been successfully modified to glow ...

Grégoire Courtine doesn’t hesitate to use the word “revolutionary” when describing the emerging field of optogenetics – a technology that ...

The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by ...

Dieter Oesterhelt from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Peter Hegemann from Humboldt University and the U.S. American Karl Deisseroth ...

A 25-million-year-old eagle fossil found in South Australia adds to the long evolutionary history of raptors in Australia.  Credit: Trevor ...

A tiger shark’s life history is one painted with broad brush strokes. These sharks are generalists of the boldest kind. ...

From inside the womb and as soon as they enter the world, babies absorb information from their environment and the ...

September is Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Awareness month. According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, approximately 296,000 Americans ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A new study delves into the evolution and function of the human growth hormone receptor gene, and ...

Specific and dynamic changes on electrocardiograms (EKGs) of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 or influenza can help predict a timeframe for ...

Dr. Daniel Pauly is the world’s most-cited fisheries scientist, but life for the UBC professor has been far from easy. ...

A team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and ...

Humans’ oldest companion, the dog, was first domesticated at least 20,000 years ago. The ancient dogs were an essential part ...

An international team of scientists have created a three-dimensional (3D) pancreatic cancer tumour model in the laboratory, combining a bioengineered ...

Machine learning can pinpoint “genes of importance” that help crops to grow with less fertilizer, according to a new study ...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have identified a way of determining the age of a lobster based ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- We put “save the chimps” on t-shirts and posters. But you’ll never see anyone walking around in ...