Month: October 2013

Changes in gene regulation have been used to study the evolutionary chasm that exists between…

Materials in lithium ion battery electrodes expand and contract during charge and discharge. These volume…

Using mice, researchers showed for the first time that the space between brain cells may…

Researchers discovered that a mutation in the NFKB2 gene impairs a protein from functioning properly,…

A fungus that is killing frogs and other amphibians around the world releases a toxic…

Scientists have proposed that the most recently discovered ancient human relatives – the Denisovans –…

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has helped astronomers see a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets…

A new image of the sunward plunging Comet ISON taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope…

Humans aren’t the only species that knows how to carry on polite conversation. Marmoset monkeys,…

Researchers have connected very rare and precise duplications and deletions in the human genome to…