New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Earth's first photosynthetic organisms—self-organize into intricate living mats, offering insights into aquatic ecosystems ...

Nitrogen is an essential component in the production of amino acids and nucleic acids—both necessary for cell growth and ...

In an intriguing revelation from recent research, mitochondria have been shown not only to power the cell but also to ...

Recycling takes place in our cells at all times: in a process called autophagy, cell components that are no longer needed are ...

Yale researchers are sifting through a mosaic of cells in a living animal—both normal cells and mutated cells—to better ...

Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they’ll still need to overcome ...

One promising solution to climate change is Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (“CCUS”). CCUS involves capturing carbon oxides, primarily ...

A collaborative effort between Mount Sinai and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has shed valuable light on how ...

A collaborative effort has shed valuable light on how monoamine neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and now histamine help regulate brain physiology and behavior through chemical bonding of ...

So they teamed up with Cornell nanoscientist Paul McEuen to create wireless light-powered microelectronic devices that can turn nearly any well plate into an array of teeny-tiny electrochemical ...

A research team has clarified a mechanism of how retrotransposons, genetic elements that can 'jump around' chromosomes and are known drivers of evolution, preferentially insert in the centromere.