Three new strategies for using DNA to generate large, self-assembling shapes create everything from a nanoscale teddy bear to a nanoscale Mona Lisa.
Factors such as humidity and temperature can affect how Rhinolophus clivosus use echolocation.
Among this year’s winners are a geneticist who revealed how plants respond to shade and a group of physicists who mapped the universe’s background radiation.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services propose covering the test with Medicare.
Peering through a microscope since age 14, Joseph Gall, now 89, still sees wonder at the other end.
Aggressive little marine predators, mantis shrimps possess a mushroom body that appears identical to the one found in insects.
The switch from maternal factors involves dynamic reprogramming of the zygotic genome.
New technologies reveal the dynamic changes in mouse and human embryos during the first week after fertilization.
An exploration of the genetics of earlobe attachment is just the latest collaborative research project to come out of the personal genetic testing company.
The fossil booty includes some eggs with embryo remains inside, and points to group nests involving long-term parental care.
The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.
The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
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