A team of paleontologists from the University of Washington and its Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture excavated four dinosaurs in northeastern Montana this summer. All fossils will be brought back to the Burke Museum where the public can watch paleontologists remove the surrounding rock in the fossil preparation laboratory.
Biodesign Institute's Josh LaBaer describes how his lab scaled up in a time of intense supply challenges
Personalized medicine, which looks at genetic risk scores to understand a person's health, has growing support among doctors and scientists.
An observational study by Finnish research groups at the SMEAR station confirms a theory that volatile organic compounds emitted by vegetation form atmospheric aerosols which make clouds more reflective. Brighter clouds reduce the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth’s surface, thereby cooling the surface.
A new Center for Live Cell Genomics, funded by a five-year, $13.5-million grant from the National Institutes of Health, will bring together researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute to develop new methods and experimental platforms for biomedical research using live cells and tissues.
Proper ventilation in cage-free hen houses is an important concern for animal comfort, according to a new study.
More than 400 million people around the world suffer from diseases caused by alterations in a single gene. These “Mendelian” disorders can be devastating to patients and their families, and often lack cures, treatments, or even a clear diagnosis.
Press release: A tumor in the human body is like a city at war, bustling with cancer cells, immune cells, blood vessels, signaling molecules and surrounding tissue.
Press release: Trilobites of the suborder Phacopina had a unique eye in which about 200 large lenses in each eye spanned at least six individual facets, each of which in turn formed its own small compound eye / 40-year-old X-ray photographs by amateur paleontologist Wilhelm Stürmer show fossilized eye nerves.
Promising news in the effort to develop drugs to treat obesity comes from University of Virginia scientists who have identified 14 genes that can cause weight gain and three that can prevent it.
Press release: Immersive virtual reality disrupts the child’s default coordination strategy, EPFL scientists show, something that should be taken into account when developing virtual reality rehabilitation protocols for children.
Press release: Potential discovery of a circumtriple planet has implications for bolstering our understanding of planet formation.
Damaging DNA builds up in the eyes of patients with geographic atrophy, an untreatable, poorly understood form of age-related macular degeneration that causes blindness, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals.
Is there meaning and purpose in the universe? This often-debated question is the subject of a June 13 paper by Nobel laureate Brian Josephson and available as a preprint from Research Gate.
Sophisticated physical measurements show how insects and other invertebrates make use of heavy metals to strengthen and sharpen their appendages in a way that is different from the biomineralization process used to form the teeth, bones, and other organs in a wide variety of animals.
The findings of the study, published on September 28 in “Nature Communications”, represent a huge step forward in understanding identical twins.
Nearly 10% of adolescent or teenage girls become pregnant annually, making teen pregnancy a major concern worldwide. A study of the problem in the Nsukka area of Enugu state in Nigeria probed the causes and consequences of teen pregnancies.
Stand on the ocean’s shore and take a big whiff of the salt spray and you’ll smell the unmistakably pungent scent of the sea. That ripe, almost rotting smell? That’s sulfur.
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded on Oct. 3 to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian "for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch."
In their roughly 3.5 billion years on Earth, bacteria have fine-tuned the art of colonizing all kinds of habitats, from the inner lining of digestive tracts to the blistering hot waters of geysers.