More than 65% of approved medicines work by binding to proteins on the surface of human cells. Yet scientists developing new ...

Silicones are widely used in industry, medicine and everyday products due to their exceptional thermal and chemical stability ...

A new study has pieced together the evolutionary history of terrestrial animals on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), offering ...

Much of what we know about biology comes from animal models, particularly mice. Applying these insights to humans, however, ...

The word "vacuum" may conjure the image of empty space. Maybe you think of a region far outside the solar system without ...

For decades, ribosomes have been under the lens of many scientists. Ribosomes are highly sophisticated and complex molecular ...

Scientists at Rutgers and in Estonia have used invisible light to look into tiny magnetic whirlpools, called vortices, inside ...

The authors call on governments, investors and conservation organizers to reimagine nature finance based on a central tenet: ...

Plastic that enters the environment does not necessarily make its way to the sea via rivers. In fact, only a tiny fraction ...

Female mice like warmer spaces than males because of two types of tiny temperature sensors in their nerves which are tuned to ...

The shape of microplastics can influence how deadly a viral infection can be for fish, according to new research from William ...

All materials contain inherent defects. These are not always harmful, since they can be used to engineer and introduce ...