Month: July 2014

Using ultra-short X-ray flashes, an international team of researchers watched electrons jumping between the fragments…

Closely related organisms share most of their genes, but these similarities belie major differences in…

Feeding a growing human population without increasing stresses on Earth’s strained land and water resources…

Sunscreen and sunglasses top the list of summertime must-haves for most people. But just as…

Scientists have completed a chromosome-based draft sequence of the bread wheat genome as well as…

Ancient enzymes, known for their fundamental role in translating genetic information into proteins, have evolved…

An antibody that can neutralize the HIV-1 fossil virus has been discovered by researchers. This…

Over the past decade, a greater number of patients, age 80 and older, are having…

Researchers have discovered a possible explanation for the surprisingly large range of biological effects that…

Throughout our lives, our brains adapt to what we learn and memorize. The brain is…