Biochemists working at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a program that predicts the placement of chemical marks that control th...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have observed what may be the first-ever signs of windy weather around a T T...
Scientists have shown how gravitational waves -- invisible ripples in the fabric of space and time that propagate through the universe -- might be &qu...
University of Utah engineers discovered a way to create a special material -- a metal layer on top of a silicon semiconductor -- that could lead to co...
Many native species have vanished from tropical islands because of human impact, but University of Florida scientists have discovered how fossils can ...
Antarctic fishes that manufacture their own "antifreeze" proteins to survive in the icy Southern Ocean also suffer an unfortunate side effec...
Of all of the world's species, humans and chimpanzees are some of the only to engage in coordinated attacks on other members of their same species...
Artificial sweeteners -- promoted as aids to weight loss and diabetes prevention -- could actually hasten the development of glucose intolerance and m...
A sleep-promoting circuit located deep in the primitive brainstem has revealed how we fall into deep sleep. Discovered by researchers at Harvard Schoo...
Researchers in Biomedical Informatics at IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) and at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UP...