Category: Science

In people born with one hand, the brain region that would normally light up with…

Deprived of oxygen, naked mole-rats can survive by metabolizing fructose just as plants do —…

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural…

Working with genetically engineered mice — and especially their whiskers — researchers report they have…

Two scientists have discovered how fat levels in a tiny soil-dwelling roundworm (C. elegans) can…

World hunger and biodiversity loss can both be addressed by ensuring that women worldwide have…

The lungs secrete a specialized enzyme capable of destroying chitin, without which chitin particles inhaled…

The first 3-D quantum liquid crystals may have applications in quantum computing, report scientists. Liquid…

Astronomers have detected for the first time multiple images from a gravitationally lensed Type Ia…

The impact of environmental change can be passed on in the genes of tiny nematode…