An international research team has achieved an important milestone for astrophysics at GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt: In the ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...

When a gene is turned on in a cell, it creates a ripple effect along the DNA strand, changing the physical structure of the ...

Researchers at Yale, Google, and the University of California-Santa Barbara have created a device that simulates the quantum ...

The old maxim "location, location, location" may be as important in the social media landscape as it is in real estate. When ...

Though it's largely a hereditary trait, siblings often grow to be different heights. But even if they end up topping out at ...

Just as the human body relies on organs such as the heart or liver for essential functions, cells depend on their own tiny ...

RNA technology is regarded as one of the newest frontiers in medicine, but in fact a primordial innovator got there way ...

Laser sail propulsion is an idea that won't go away. By aiming powerful Earth-based lasers at tiny spacecraft with light sails, tiny spacecraft can be accelerated to near-relativistic speeds without ...

An international research team led by Cologne-based plant scientist Professor Dr. Bart Thomma from the Institute for Plant ...

Cell division during the early stage of embryo development is a trade-off between speed and accuracy; the cells need to ...

New research, focused on the feeding behavior of long-finned pilot whales, has shed light on one of Scotland's largest mass ...