Microbial evolution has turned a mild-mannered North American beetle into a tree killer in Asia. The red turpentine beetle, Dendroctonus valens, is a wood-boring species…
Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at The University of Western Ontario have been studying HIV for the last twenty years and working on a…
The Ebolavirus was first described in 1976 during the Zaire ebolavirus outbreaks in Africa. It’s one of the most lethal viruses on Earth, and it’s…
Research from scientists at the Yale School of Medicine suggests that obesity and chronic liver disease from altered populations of microbes in the stomach may…
While studying DNA from plants’ green chloroplasts, researchers at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdamare discovered that a transfer of chloroplasts genomes…
A new, controversial proposal would try to regulate sugar as a toxic substance, since it’s calorie-rich and naturally enables obesity. Researchers consider it close to…
Polyurethane is one of the most commonly used plastics in different types of products, but it’s also one that takes an extremely long period of…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research are trying to repair damaged cardiac tissue by growing replacement tissue in a laboratory….
Researchers from University of Aberdeen and National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) discovered ‘supergiant’ amphipods while exploring the Kermadec Trench, north of New…
MIT researcher Andreas Mershin believes that low cost photovoltaic panels may one day be made from plant material. His work is an extension of the…
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics are studying how different brain regions cooperate during memory. While testing monkeys with images for visual…
The Denisova Cave, perched high in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, has been a large natural shelter for humans and animals for tens of…
Until now, researchers could only sequence the genomes of microbes in two ways. They could sequence it directly, which requires growing the organism in a…
A team of Russian researchers is close to breaching into Lake Vostok, a prehistoric lake that’s been trapped deep beneath the Antarctic surface for the…
Dr. Samuel French and his team of researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have continued to build on previous research that identified two cellular…
New research from an international team of scientists challenges the claim that the world’s oceans are experiencing increases in jellyfish due to human activities such…
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Politecnico di Torino in Italy have published a new study examining how spider webs respond…
Human brains make synaptic connections throughout much of childhood, and the brain’s plasticity enables humans to slowly wire them based upon experiences, contrary to how…