Month: February 2016

Modern men increasingly value brains over beauty when choosing long-term mates, say researchers. While the…

DNA is unwound by a type of “pumpjack” mechanism, similar to the way one operates…

A geologic event known as diking can cause strong earthquakes — with a magnitude between…

The human fingertip is a finely tuned sensory machine, and even slight touches convey a…

In a world-first, researchers have performed cardiac MRI imaging using a 7T MRI scanner in…

In one of the first efforts to date to apply nanotechnology to targeted cancer therapeutics,…

Poor physical fitness in middle age may be linked to a smaller brain size 20…

Statin drugs interact with a gap junction protein called GJC3 that releases ATP, a major…

Boxer Muhammad Ali famously declared his intent to ‘float like a butterfly and sting like…

Previous research has established a link between genetic mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes…