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.
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.
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.
DNA is the code of life. In order to better understand life, scientists are seeking an explanation for its beginnings.
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.
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.
The platypus just became known for another unusual characteristic: It is biofluorescent.
Four UCLA faculty members were named 2020 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
A 12-member team of researchers was awarded the 2020 ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for research involving COVID-19.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently said that 489 of its members were named fellows.
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.
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.
2-million-year-old skull discovered in South Africa in 2018 shows climate change affected development
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.
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 new advance in a method to synthetically produce DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) brings us closer to using DNA to efficiently store the increasingly huge amount of information the world generates.
Many cancer researchers can claim to have devised “smart bombs.” What has been missing is the stealth bomber – a delivery system that can slip through the body’s radar defenses.
Rainbows are created when light enters a water droplet, causing the light to diffract into many colors.
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has established plans for a new journal titled Microbiology Spectrum, set to launch in spring of 2021.
NASA has teamed up with US and European partners to launch a satellite intended to monitor global sea levels as world leaders become more concerned with the rising sea levels around the world.