Sequencing the genomes of hundreds of strains of the wine yeast S. cerevisiae has revealed little genetic diversity and high levels of inbreeding. In ...
Simulations are a popular tool to study physical processes that cannot be investigated experimentally in detail. For example, scientists are challenge...
Mecysmaucheniidae spiders, which live only in New Zealand and southern South America, don't look like much. They are drab and tiny spiders that hu...
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and collaborators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have...
The pace of evolution is typically measured in millions of years, as random, individual mutations accumulate over generations, but researchers at Corn...
Money could buy happiness if your purchases fit your personality, according to a new study that examines nearly 77,000 actual UK bank spending transac...
Children are far from meeting national guidelines for physical activity, and girls are at greatest risk of falling short of recommendations according ...
When NASA's New Horizons sped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, it took the best-ever pictures of the rocky world s surface, giving us new insight into...
A finely tuned carbon nanotube thin film has the potential to act as a thermoelectric power generator that captures and uses waste heat, according to ...
Microbiologists based in the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences at Queen's University Belfast have recently rele...