When third-year veterinary students at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University step into the operating ...

Researchers at the Technion have discovered how changes in genetic regulatory sequences can lead to alterations in the form and structure of animals—even when genetic regulatory systems are stable and ...

As modern technologies shrink to the nanoscale, surfaces increasingly dictate how materials deform, yield, and fail. Yet ...

When inorganic nanoparticles come together, their optical, electronic, and magnetic properties depend strongly on how they ...

Geological faults hold many secrets that may help us answer important questions about the nature of our planet and what ...

Describing new species can take decades. But scientists are working to identify new ways to speed up our understanding of ...

More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a myriad of marine animals, many of which have now become extinct. This ...

Medications are designed to treat diseased tissues while sparing healthy ones, often by attaching the drug to something that helps guide it directly to its target. But drugs also need time to work, ...

Tropical forests store more than 60% of the world's vegetation biomass and are among the most important ecosystems for regulating the global carbon cycle and climate. However, their regulatory role is ...

The sci-fi film Project Hail Mary, currently in theaters, is capturing the attention of both audiences and the scientific ...

More than a decade after the Nagoya Protocol, which aims to fairly share the benefits of utilizing genetic resources, became ...

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, but the only way it interacts with its surroundings is ...