Stepping away from its billions-of-years-old role as a genetic blueprint, DNA is now embarking on a new journey as an active ...

Take a typical fish out of the water and it won't live long. It gets the oxygen it needs from the water it swims in. In a ...

August Weismann's germ plasm theory of the late 19th century posited that only germ cells, e.g., sperm and egg cells in ...

Scientists at Florida International University have identified a promising way to safely ship fish long distances without ...

Chocolate prices have jumped again this Easter, and it has a lot of people concerned about how much higher they can go—and ...

Quantum mechanics is extremely successful at describing the behavior of matter at the atomic level. This success forces one ...

A United Nations-backed framework for protecting tropical forests could allow governments to collect income from carbon ...

New research suggests that neutrinos in the early universe may have transformed into a previously unknown form of radiation.

Scientists have discovered that a highly unusual giant planet—sometimes called "forbidden"—could have an atmosphere with ...

Control of heat transport in nanostructures is of central importance for numerous modern technologies—from high-performance ...

Polarization has always been a core property of light that is essential for a broad range of everyday applications, including ...

Conventional weapons are generally presented as controllable, proportionate and morally acceptable, unlike weapons of mass ...