The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...

An international team of scientists have discovered that soap could be important to helping our understanding of complex ...

Scientists have adapted a sensing platform to detect and even measure chemicals at low enough concentrations to have use outside the lab. The system, which is 10 times more sensitive than previous ...

Researchers have described how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus genetically adapts to humans, including mutations that allow some strains to evade the immune system and become resistant to ...

An adult human body consists of some 37 trillion cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types.

One of the most striking things about these creatures, however, is the fact that each of their eight arms almost seems to ...

Following the announcement that Sylvia Trent-Adams would be stepping down as president of the University of North Texas ...

Researchers in China have proposed and experimentally demonstrated a revolutionary metamaterial agent, termed metaAgent. This ...

If everything that occurs at the microscopic, molecular level in plants and animals and other life forms occurs as a result ...

World over, more people die in the winter than any other season. Scientists have investigated why for decades. They have some ...