Nobel Laureate Jerome Karle has passed away at age 94.
Nobel Laureate Jerome Karle has passed away at age 94.
Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, who fought hard against the alcohol and tobacco industries, has passed away.
Turning cell phones into basic research tools can improve health care in the developing world.
Researchers use DNA from ancient tooth tartar to chart changes in the bacterial communities that have lived in human mouths for 8,000 years.
As new infections surface and spread, science meets the challenges with ingenuity and adaptation.
Researchers discover a microbe living at -15°C, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, giving hope to the search for life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Chilly weather could impede the immune reactions that most effectively contain viruses like the common cold.
Viruses that attack bacteria may be an important component of our gut microbiota.
Telomeres and disease; Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes may fight malaria; bat tongue mops nectar; newly sequenced genomes
Emil Frei III, a cancer researcher who in the 1950s combined multiple chemotherapy drugs to treat childhood leukemia, has died at the age of 89.