Microgrids play a growing role in modern power systems, supporting renewable integration, local resilience, and decentralized ...

T o make good decisions on any question the public needs to be well-informed, something not so easily accomplished in America’s schools. That is a key point made by Michael Kent, a recently retired ...

Discover how researchers are overcoming the limitations of the undruggable target in drug discovery using novel approaches ...

Viruses have spent billions of years perfecting the art of invading cells, hijacking their machinery and spreading with ...

A new analysis of gene expression in blood samples suggests that specific biological signs of Parkinson’s disease are ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

Regular contact with fire could play a key role in the formation of the human genome, affecting the mechanisms of healing and immune response. This is the conclusion reached by scientists at Imperial ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones first emerged and became so diverse.

Among them was David Liu, a biochemist at the Broad Institute and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Liu isn’t a ...

Rove beetles have evolved a neat trick to survive. They cloak themselves in ant pheromones, allowing them to enter and remain ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...