A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when the idea of home appliances that could think for themselves, and for you, felt like ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge.

Basic research, often termed fundamental, frontier, blue-sky, curiosity-driven—or even useless—is the pursuit of knowledge ...

Why did life on Earth choose alpha amino acids as the building blocks of proteins? A new study suggests the answer lies in the stability of their ...

For a group of researchers in Thailand, not only did they discover a species new to science hiding in dirt burrows, but they ...

DFG Research Unit “Innovation and Coevolution in Plant Sexual Reproduction” (ICIPS) will be funded for another four years ...

Patti’s team is watching them closely, tracking which fish develop tumours, to try to find clues to one of the most unsettling medical puzzles of our time: Why are so many young people getting cancer?

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified genes and signaling pathways that trigger the death of individual ...

This important study demonstrates that ocular organoids can generate both retina and lens through a non-canonical, "inside-out" morphogenetic route. The work is solid, with well-designed experiments ...