Forget the five-million plus commuters and untold number of rats – many of the living things crowded into the New York City subway system are too small to see….

People typically consider doing the laundry to be a boring chore. But laundry is far from boring for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers like Siddharth…

Wilms tumors, also known as nephroblastomas, are among the more common solid tumors in children. They tend to appear before the age of six and are categorized…

The findings help to better explain some of the damage these medications can do, and set the stage for new ways to study and offset those impacts.

If you want to unravel the secrets of proton spin, put a “twist” in your colliding proton beams. This technique, tried and perfected at the Relativistic Heavy…

Thirty percent of the camera’s observing time — about 105 nights per year — go to the team that built it: scientists working on the Dark Energy Survey.

Investigators with the National Institutes of Health have discovered the genomic switches of a blood cell key to regulating the human immune system. The…

While public interest on possible extrateestrial life is increasing, only a fraction of the biodiversity of our own planet is known. Current estimates suggest…

On the search for high performance materials for applications such as gas storage, thermal insulators or dynamic nanosystems it is essential to understand the…

Deciphering the nature of dark matter – the mysterious substance that makes up about 85 percent of the matter in the universe yet has never been directly seen…

In the study, published in the journal eLife, scientists from Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science found that people use the touch of a handshake to sample…

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have, for the first time, spotted four images of a distant exploding star. The images are arranged in a…

Recently, by combining the highly sensitive receiving capabilities of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and the powerful radar…

In large part, this highly regulated process of gene expression is what makes us fully functioning, complex beings, rather than a blob of like-minded cells.

In some cases, there’s not much medics can do — a tourniquet won’t stop bleeding from a chest wound, and clotting treatments that require refrigerated or…

The kidneys and urinary tract are the sites affected most frequently by congenital malformations. Approximately 1 out of every 200 children suffers from such a…

Some of the microorganisms hail from the most extreme environments on Earth; taken together, the samples should allow for a (cautious) estimate of the…

In 2014, more spotted-wing Drosophila suzukii than ever before were observed in Germany. This pest lays its eggs in fresh and ripening fruits before they are…

Many strange creatures live in the deep sea, but few are odder than archaea, primitive single-celled bacteria-like microorganisms. Archaea go to great lengths…

Probing deeply into genetics and biology at the earliest moments of embryonic development, researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center report…