Hundreds of animals eat fruit, from toucans to fruit bats to maned wolves to humans. But most fruit-bearing plants evolved relatively recently in Earth’s history,...
A new study into the multipurpose uses of boomerangs has highlighted the hardwood objects were used to shape the edges of stone tools used by...
Transferring the nuclear genome from one egg into the cytoplasm of a donor egg is a strategy to enable women carrying mutations in their mitochondrial...
Countries with greater progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) had smaller declines in childhood vaccination coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study...
LA JOLLA, CALIF. – Aug 16, 2022 – Peter Adams, Ph.D., and Bing Ren, Ph.D., have been awarded a new grant from the National Institutes...
For Immediate ReleaseCredit: The MIT Press, 2022. For Immediate Release “Tornado of Life is a tour de force. It features patient narratives, sketches of the ER,...
New research based on an expedition to the icy waters off Greenland reveals soaring levels of antifreeze proteins in a species of tiny snailfish, underlying...
New research published today by the University of Southampton shows new insight in how our brain develops, that can pave the way for treating neurological...
As important as the internal combustion engine has been for societal progress, it is also a major contributor to pollution that damages human health and...
A study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering details a novel method for imaging the placenta in pregnant patients as well as the results of a...
More than two years into the pandemic, the virus that causes COVID—SARS-CoV-2—continues to spread worldwide. Testing for the virus and its variants can help limit...
LA JOLLA (August 16, 2022)—Salk scientists have uncovered a molecular pathway that distills threatening sights, sounds and smells into a single message: Be afraid. A...
WASHINGTON, August 16, 2022 – During the COVID-19 pandemic, many live musical events and festivals were postponed and even canceled to protect musicians and audience...
When scientists unveiled humanity’s historic first image of a black hole in 2019 – depicting a dark core encircled by a fiery aura of material...
When it comes to royalty, things are clear: The monarch's first child inherits the crown. Siblings born later must make do with a less glamorous...
