Science

Researchers have discovered that breast tumors can boost their growth by recruiting stromal cells originally formed in the bone marrow. The study reveals that...

Engineers have built and flown the first-ever plane with no moving parts. Instead of propellers or turbines, the light aircraft is powered by an...

During the Triassic period (252-201 million years ago) mammal-like reptiles called therapsids co-existed with ancestors to dinosaurs, crocodiles, mammals, pterosaurs, turtles, frogs, and lizards....

Drummers and brass players are better able to judge the timing of visual stimuli than members of the color guard, according to a naturalistic...

Hantaviruses cause severe and sometimes fatal respiratory infections, but how they infect lung cells has been a mystery. Researchers report that hantaviruses gain entry...

Scientists have identified gene recombination in neurons that produces thousands of new gene variants within Alzheimer's disease brains. The study reveals for the first...

A protein found in healing muscles of younger mice helps older animals bounce back from injury.

Asymmetry plays a major role in biology at every scale: think of DNA spirals, the fact that the human heart is positioned on the...

When a pathogen enters their colony, ants change their behavior to avoid the outbreak of disease. In this way, they protect the queen, brood...

A new global field size data set collected as part of a crowdsourcing citizen science project has shown that the proportion of smallholder farms...