Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria allows us ...

Concentrating light in a volume as small as the wavelength itself is a challenge that is crucial for numerous applications.

As NASA prepares to return to the moon, studying astronaut health and safety is a top priority. Scientists monitor and ...

The professional world has no shortage of micromanagers—or, as Penn State School of Labor and Employment Relations (LER) ...

Proteins form the structural and functional backbone of the cell, and any perturbation in their synthesis can disrupt normal ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

Most cells in the human body each contain about six feet of DNA. Yet the nucleus, where DNA is coiled, is no larger than a ...

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' ...

Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use to infect plant roots could be a powerful ...

In the subarctic and arctic reaches of the Northwest Territories (NWT), the climate is warming faster than most other places ...

Red roses, the symbol of love, were likely yellow in the past, indicates a large genomic analysis by researchers from Beijing ...