A collaborative team of researchers has used next generation sequencing to identify clinically relevant genetic variants associated with a rare pediat...
Every day, all day, our DNA gets beaten up by chemicals and radiation -- but remarkably, most of us stay healthy. Now, an investigation by a team of F...
As the U.S. makes new plans for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste deep underground, geologists are key to identif...
Fracking is in the headlines a lot these days, and everyone has an opinion about it. But how much do we really know for certain about the oil and gas ...
Dendrites（树突）, the branch-like projections of neurons, were once thought to be passive wiring in the brain. But now researchers at the University of N...
最近发表的一篇研究表明：分享或关注网上食物的照片会使得我们对食物的满意程度下降。实验显示，某种食物的图片看到的越多，人们越不喜欢吃那种食物。Problem: On the scale of problems, "pictures of food on the Internet" ...
Making hydrogen easily and cheaply is a dream goal for clean, sustainable energy. Bacteria have been doing exactly that for billions of years, and now...
Over the past three years, 300,000 gamers have helped scientists with genomic research by playing Phylo, an online puzzle game. Now Jérôm...
Just as our bodies have skeletons, so do our cells. They're equally indispensible（不可缺少的） in both cases. Without our bony skeletons we'd go lim...
The painful, potentially deadly stings of bark scorpions are nothing more than a slight nuisance（损害） to grasshopper mice, which voraciously（狼吞虎咽地） kil...