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Credit: Prentice et al. Neurons found in the human eye naturally display a form of error correction in the collective visual signals they send to...

Researchers have developed a synthetic pathway to "fix" carbon dioxide - converting it into organic compounds - more quickly than can be achieved by plants....

Credit: @ECORD_IODP The first results of a recent drilling expedition at Chicxulub crater - one of the only known craters on Earth with a well-preserved...

Credit: Image courtesy of the MIPT Press Office An international team of astrophysicists including Russian scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy...

(Van Andel Research Institute) Van Andel Research Institute (VARI), in collaboration with Cedars-Sinai, has received a $2.5 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute...

BOSTON - Boston Medical Center (BMC) has been awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to expand access to...

Concerns about weight gain may be driving contraception choices, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. Women who are overweight or obese are less...

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

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

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

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

Despite the vast diversity of organisms on the planet that express enzymes for the conversion of carbon dioxide into such organic compounds as sugars -...

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

Scientists studying the Chicxulub crater have shown how large asteroid impacts deform rocks in a way that may produce habitats for early life. Around 65...

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