Nature is on the move. As the impacts of climate change reveal themselves, species and ecosystems are moving in response. This poses a fundamental cha...
New research has highlighted the value of a modern logging technique for maintaining biodiversity in tropical forests that are used for timber product...
A protein that helps embryonic stem cells (ESCs) retain their identity also promotes DNA repair, according to a study in The Journal of Cell Biology. ...
Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), which are made from carbon-containing materials, have the potential to revolutionize future display technologie...
You might resemble or act more like your mother, but a novel research study from UNC School of Medicine researchers reveals that mammals are genetical...
Recreating the violent conditions of Earth's formation, scientists are learning more about how iron vaporizes and how this iron rain affected the ...
Dust plays an extremely important role in the universe -- both in the formation of planets and new stars. But dust was not there from the beginning an...
The miniweight boxing title of the animal world belongs to the mantis shrimp, a cigar-sized crustacean whose front claws can deliver an explosive 60-m...
The use of animals in experimental research has soared at leading US laboratories in recent years, finds research published online in the Journal of M...
Scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center and New York University have demonstrated that a specialized DNA-binding protein called CTCF is essential for...