If you want to understand a part of Earth’s galactic history—whether it passed near a supernova during its path around our galaxy, for example—you may be able to find the answer in the crystal structure of a rock, according to a University of Michigan study.
A special issue of the Journal of Proteome Research celebrates the 90% completion of the human proteome, a catalog of all the proteins encoded by the human genome.
2-million-year-old skull discovered in South Africa in 2018 shows climate change affected development
Researchers studying SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, have found it contains a previously unknown overlapping gene. Understanding such genes will improve our knowledge and could even alter how we fight it.
Researchers have found a way to create fiber materials that are capable of protecting "underlying areas from UV light," which helps to solve a greater problem when it comes to smart materials.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently said that 489 of its members were named fellows.
A 12-member team of researchers was awarded the 2020 ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for research involving COVID-19.
Four UCLA faculty members were named 2020 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
The platypus just became known for another unusual characteristic: It is biofluorescent.
An artificial intelligence (AI) program has successfully cracked a 50-year problem in biology: How to accurately determine the three-dimensional structure of protein folding from the protein's amino acid sequence.
Mathematician Peter Shor — creator of the revolutionary method for making quantum computers possible — now warns that quantum computing threatens to crack the encryption coding used by conventional computers.
DNA is the code of life. In order to better understand life, scientists are seeking an explanation for its beginnings.
As the year winds down, so does government funding, as a budget is on the table with an omnibus funding package with 12 appropriation bills that include funding that directly impacts the science community.
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program has begun to return genetic results to participants who have donated biosamples for research.
Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Medicine have developed a possible new antibiotic for a pathogen that is notoriously resistant to medications and frequently lethal for people with cystic fibrosis and other lung ailments.
Finding a way to preserve antibiotic effectiveness and simultaneously prevent antibiotic resistance can help stop the spread of infectious diseases, especially in hospital settings. Many important antibiotics, however, no longer work against certain bacterial infections because bacteria have developed mutations to make them antibiotic resistant.
A team of researchers from Texas A&M University has discovered a hidden gene, embedded within another gene, in the group of bacteriophages called leviviruses. They report that the hidden gene is rapidly evolving and thus holds the potential for understanding and preventing antibiotic resistance.
A study looking at the safety and performance of a new pulmonary valved conduit provided "encouraging clinical results."