Month: March 2015

A handful of new stars are born each year in the Milky Way, while many…

Direct evidence of the rate at which individual trees in the Amazonian basin ‘inhale’ carbon…

For decades, scientists have been searching for African fossils documenting the earliest phases of the…

A genetic variation has been discovered that, in women, significantly increases their risk of developing…

Federal efforts to curb Medicare costs for unclogging blood vessels in the limbs slowed the…

Growing up as a planet with more than one parent star has its challenges. Though…

Employees whose retirement plan is invested in stock of the company where they work do…

Is there any worse time to be interrupted than right now? Regardless of what we’re…

New light has been shed on changes in intestinal bacteria of infants that can predict…

By imaging single viruses injected into the intense beam of an X-ray free-electron laser, researchers…