Genetically modified worms may make us rethink invertebrate evolution
How intensive agriculture turned a wild plant into a pervasive weed
A new study led by Yves Brun shows how some bacteria living in a biofilm sacrifice themselves to ensure the survival of the community.
There are years of basic research in neuroscience behind the development of the first mixed reality game to diagnose and promote inclusion for people with autism.
Montreal biologists publish a study demonstrating that photogrammetry allows rapid and precise three-dimensional reconstruction of flowers from two-dimensional images.
A study shows that Riluzole could be effective in the treatment of certain leukodystrophies, neurodegenerative diseases that attack the myelin in the brain of young children.
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In Hawaiʻi, Native Hawaiian cancer patients have a two-fold increased risk of dying from sepsis, a life-threatening immune response to an infection, compared to other ethnicities, according to a new study co-authored by University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center researchers.
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet with a decaying orbit around a star that resembles a future version of our Sun.
The first major professional conference that Pallavi Kache ever attended was an international symposium focused on wild pigs.
It’s not a real rip in spacetime, but it’s still cool.
As with many natural phenomena, scientists look to the climate of the past to understand what may lie ahead as Earth warms.
(Bloomberg) -- Cognito Therapeutics Inc. became the latest company to secure a large-scale trial to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Unlike most other remedies in development today, this one involves a device rather than medicine.
Simultaneous cannabis and alcohol use, defined as using both substances at the same time so their effects overlap, increased in adults from 2008 to 2019, according to new research conducted at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
The study proves quantum processors can be a key testbed in investigating mysterious cosmic phenomena, scientists say.
An incredibly bright flash that appeared in the night sky in February was the result of a star straying too close to a supermassive black hole, meeting its untimely end there as it was ripped to shreds.
“Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are currently waiting for organ transplants,” Sykes writes in the piece. “Because the human organ donor pool cannot keep pace with this demand, many patients die without receiving the life-saving transplant they need.”
WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Astronomers have detected an act of extreme violence more than halfway across the known universe as a black hole shreds a star that wandered too close to this celestial savage. But this was no ordinary instance of a ravenous black hole.
As climate change continues, human cases of rat lungworm disease are anticipated to become more widespread globally, especially in places where the parasite that causes the disease is not yet present.
An investigation into National Science Foundation (NSF) data on funding rates, award types and proposal ratings from 1996 to 2019 found pervasive racial disparities.