In a discovery that blurs the boundaries between human genetics and virology, scientists have identified a human gene ...

Researchers have also found many different allotropes of boron that exhibit unique chemical properties. However, there is one ...

A new study from MIT and collaborators, published in Science, reveals a surprising culprit: ceramides, fatty molecules produced in response to a high-fat diet. The team discovered ...

An image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of galaxy cluster MACS J0417 is part of repeated observations to monitor for the ...

Submarine caldera eruptions are difficult to study because their most important processes occur beneath the ocean.

When abdominal muscles contract, pressure rises in blood vessels connected to the brain through the spinal column.

In order to determine the strength of Gravity, scientists employed a torsion balance, a device that is able to detect small ...

The results point to Europe as the birthplace of bats during the late Paleocene. From there, their descendants spread into Africa, before radiating outward into the Americas, Asia, and Australia. This ...

For decades, scientists have studied blazars, supermassive black holes in distant galaxies whose powerful jets are pointed directly at Earth. Now, for the first time, astronomers from ASTRON, JIVE, ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 4698 is similar to our Milky Way but has a much calmer look. Its thin, smooth spiral arms flow around a bright central region. There are also dust lanes throughout the disk. At ...