Sharks, skates, and rays are oddities among the fish: They have appendages growing out of the gill arch, a small cradle of bones that supports the gil...
Cities have their own distinct microbial communities but these communities don't vary much between offices located in the same city, according to ...
For hundreds of millions of years, Earth's climate has remained on a fairly even keel, with some dramatic exceptions: Around 80 million years ago,...
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have announced a new method for detecting DNA mutations in a single cancer cell versu...
Seven fossil teeth exposed by the Panama Canal expansion project are the first evidence of a monkey on the North American continent before the Isthmus...
A team of researchers from across the country, led by Alexander Spott, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, have built the first quantum casc...
Bacteria possess the ability to take up DNA from their environment, a skill that enables them to acquire new genes for antibiotic resistance or to esc...
A study undertaken by scientists from the University of Alberta and Environment and Climate Change Canada to understand swimming behavior in polar bea...
Patients receiving cancer treatment could increase their chance of survival by up to 20% and help stop their cancer from spreading by taking a low-dos...
People who go to bed wary of potential danger sometimes pledge to sleep "with one eye open." A new Brown University study finds that isn'...