Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Europe's cartographers traded on their reputation for accuracy and detail at a time ...

Heme, a bioactive form of iron, has numerous essential functions in the cell. As a key component of hemoglobin, it enables ...

When UC Berkeley postdoctoral researchers Maya Zomer and Lucia Layritz first drove through burned portions of Mojave National ...

Early last month, Utah experienced two historic wildfires at the same time, highlighting the record-setting fire season ...

Fluorescent dyes have long been used in biological research to identify and visualize structures within living cells.

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A new study analyzing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spectra of more than 1,400 galaxies suggests a surprisingly small ...

Earths—rocky planets with masses between 1 and 10 times that of Earth—high pressure can cause familiar minerals to take forms ...

In a meeting room at the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, a Chinese film poster flickers onto a large screen. Haiqing Lin, the ...

Around 15 years ago, I created a Facebook page for my cat, Sandi. Friends thought it was weird. Today, social media accounts ...

A new study led by a Duke University scientist overturns a long-held idea about how primates, including humans, came to have ...

The Arctic is warming at an accelerating pace. As permafrost thaws across vast areas and wildfires become more frequent, ...