The stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the globular cluster NGC 1854, a gathering of white and blue stars in the southern constellation of...
Solving a mitochondrial mystery
Credit: University of Colorado at Boulder
When it comes to mitochondrial inheritance, maternal genes rule the day at the expense of paternal ones. But why?
A...
Siberian larch forests are still linked to the ice age
A new study shows that the flora of the Northern Russian permafrost lags behind the climate often by several thousand years. Credit: © Klim...
Where do rubber trees get their rubber?
Rubber is eing collected from a rubber tree.Credit: Minami Matsui at RIKEN
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan along...
‘Amazing protein diversity’ is discovered in the maize plant
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory researchers found 'amazing diverity' in the maize plant by extensively sampling messages copied from activated genes in these six portions,...
Chemists turn greenhouse gas into hydrogen fuel
Researchers in the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute have developed a method of harnessing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, while producing hydrogen for fuel...
KM3NeT unveils detailed plans for largest neutrino telescope in the world
KM3NeT - a European collaboration pioneering the deployment of kilometre cubed arrays of neutrino detectors off the Mediterranean coast - has reported in detail...
Sagittarius Sunflowers
These three bright nebulae are often featured in telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius and the crowded starfields of the central Milky Way. In...
New England cottontail making a comeback in the region
In this Tuesday, June 21, 2016 photo, a male New England cottontail rabbit sits in a pen at the Roger Williams Park Zoo, in...
Unexpected findings reveal insight into how cancer spreads in the body
Credit: Barts Cancer Institute, QMUL
Cancer cells appear to depend on an unusual survival mechanism to spread around the body, according to an early study...
Fix for 3-billion-year-old genetic error could dramatically improve genetic sequencing
Molecular bioscientist Jared Ellefson of the University of Texas at Austin has created a way for RNA to "proofread" copies of genetic information for...
