A recent study showed that using the combined treatment of kinase inhibitors dabrafenib and trametinib,…
Scientists look at how galaxy collisions can distort the shapes of the galaxies involved, including…
A team of scientists designed proteins from scratch to have a high affinity and high…
NASA scientists are preparing Curiosity to take its first scoop of soil for analysis, which…
Researchers that claimed that the GFAJ-1 bacterium had a preference for arsenic instead of phosphorous…
Paleontologists have discovered that horseshoe crabs haven’t had an entirely static evolutionary history. A new…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have greatly improved the cosmic distance ladder used to…
A new, faster DNA-sequencing machine, as well as streamlined analysis of its results, will allow…
The venom of the black mamba snake can kill humans within 20 minutes, but among…
650 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius, the Helix nebula is putting on a…
Pegomastax africanus is a new species of plant-eating dinosaur with tiny, 1-inch-long (2.5-centimeter-long) jaws, which…
In the cavernous area of Building 1230, located at the ITT Exelis facility in Rochester,…
The comet ISON was recently discovered and it could possibly become the brightest object in…
Some of the scientists who helped fight the 2003 SARS epidemic are working on the…
A newly published study details how scientists used femtosecond X-ray pulses from a free-electron laser…
In humans, people with strong social ties live longer, and have healthier lives, whereas hostile…
Scottish scientists have proposed to use a giant space-based dust cloud, blasted off an asteroid,…
In a recently published study, scientists show that the photocurrent generated by a single photosynthetic…