Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence ...

Once the world's most populous nation, China is now among the many Asian countries struggling with anemic fertility rates. In ...

Oceans shape everyday life in powerful ways. They cover 70% of the planet, carry 90% of global trade, and support millions of ...

A new discovery about how cells communicate with each other in the body's immune system has revealed deeper insights for an ...

Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are highly social, but those social ties can also help diseases spread through ...

Research reveals when and why ancient tropical seas transitioned from oxygen oases to marine dead zones, providing clues to ...

A new framework for understanding the nonmonotonic temperature dependence and sign reversal of the chirality-related ...

Many people are familiar with histamine, a biological molecule that serves as a key driver of allergic reactions and other ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has uncovered the first decisive evidence that at least some fast radio ...

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how ...