Autophagy—meaning "self-eating" in Greek—is a fundamental cellular mechanism that preserves cell health by recycling and ...

Male "ghost sharks"—eerie deep-sea fish known as chimaeras that are related to sharks and rays—have a strange rod jutting ...

Epigenetic silencing governs key biological processes, from flowering time in plants to preventing uncontrolled cell growth ...

Maintaining American energy independence requires minimizing reliance on foreign countries to produce commodity chemicals and ...

A study from Würzburg reveals that pox viruses have developed a unique strategy to rapidly multiply after infecting a host ...

Beneath the surface of the Chesapeake Bay, a subtle but dramatic shift is taking place as eelgrass gives way to its ...

Drawing on nature, researchers have developed a method to pump CO2 captured from industrial processes into volcanic rocks for ...

Picture a squirrel eating an acorn. It's holding the nut in its front paws. More specifically, squirrels handle their food ...

For over a hundred years, schoolchildren around the world have learned that ice melts when pressure and friction are applied.

LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been called the most precise ruler in the world for its ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are ...

When a baby babbles and their parents respond, these back-and-forth exchanges are more than adorable-if-incoherent ...