The research, published in Science Advances, demonstrates a previously unknown function of an enzyme called carboxysomal ...

Most systems used to detect toxic gases in industrial or domestic settings can be used only once, or at best a few times. Now ...

The study in the Blue Lips cichlid, a species native to swamps and lakes of Uganda, showed that the eyes and pupil size of ...

Semiconductors are the foundation of all modern electronics. Now, researchers at Linköping University have developed a new ...

For many people, chocolate is a sweet delight: its main components are cocoa mass and cocoa butter, which are extracted from the cocoa fruit. What is less known, however, is that the cocoa fruit ...

Currently available flu medications only target the virus after it has already established an infection, but what if a drug could prevent infection in the first place? Now, scientists at Scripps ...

Michael Schubert, PhD, is a veteran science and medicine communicator. He holds graduate degrees in biochemistry and molecular biology with a research focus on chromatin structure and function and has ...

Within the systems themselves, most errors occur in solenoids or sensors, which track specimens’ progress through the system. When these sensitive detectors become dirty, faulty, or misaligned, they ...

A team of glaciologists led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine used high-resolution satellite radar data to find evidence of the intrusion of warm, high-pressure seawater many ...