Bacteriophages, or viruses that infect bacteria, have a fiendishly simple purpose in life: attach to a bacterial cell, inject ...
More than 30 years after the direct connection was established between the molecular machinery controlling cell division and ...
On Oct. 17, 1346, the Battle of Neville's Cross was fought outside Durham in the northeast of England. It was a decisive ...
About 2 billion metric tons of metal are produced worldwide every year to meet the demands of industry, infrastructure and ...
A transistor normally requires several fundamentally different materials—a semiconductor to carry current, an insulating ...
The coastline near the southern tip of Africa looked vastly different between about 400,000 years ago and 70,000 years ago, ...
Limbs evolved as a means of locomotion. From the primitive rotating flagella of bacteria to the wings of flies and even our ...
When corals are stressed by pollution, high water temperatures or other environmental changes, they can lose the microscopic ...
Chitin, a chain of repeating sugar molecules, is the main building block of fungal cell walls. When fungi grow or are broken ...
When a marine heat wave strikes, scientists often turn to satellites to see how the ocean is responding. From space, changes ...
The Earth got its moon when a small planet collided with our planet more than 4 billion years ago. This impact hurled molten ...
The University of Bristol–led study, published in Nature Communications, could help millions of people living in ...