Fruit flies, mice, zebrafish, yeast and the tiny worm C. elegans are model organisms that have carried modern biology on ...

Researchers have been studying tens of thousands of proteins and even more variations without a yardstick to compare their results.

Although he lived in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, his reflections remain strikingly timeless ...

For almost a century, psychology and neuroscience researchers have been trying to understand the processes via which humans and other animals acquire new skills or learn to deal with specific ...

While many children enjoy swimming, not all get the chance to do it often. Research from the Swimming Teachers Association (STA) found that a third of children can’t swim. As a potentially life-saving ...

Some items you can recycle in one city may be prohibited in another. Batteries, plastic bags, small appliances, and more may not be allowed.

Of all the skin-care and cosmetics products I recently bought online that turned out to be counterfeit, expired, used, or otherwise problematic, the one that still makes me squirm ...

Discover the principles behind Countable PCR, how it compares with established molecular quantification methods, and what direct RNA counting could mean for research and clinical applications.

Do aliens exist? Few debates have proved as enduring – or as divisive – as the question of whether there is life beyond Earth ...

Getting a dedicated garage space to work on your cars and motorcycles is great, but wrenching on your own stuff is difficult without proper lighting.

Silica nanoparticles may make oral insulin possible by safely enhancing drug absorption through the intestinal wall in obese mice.

This important paper presents a rigorous and comprehensive deep mutational analysis of the kinase TYK2, revealing how single amino acid substitutions influence protein abundance, signaling activity, ...