Hundreds of new genomes help fill the bird ‘tree of life’
From gulls to grouse to grackles, more than 10,000 bird species live on this planet....
Creative Commons Joins the American University’s Efforts to Promote the International Right to Research
American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) has received a three-year grant of $3.8 million...
How Much Do Our Genes Restrict Free Will?
Many of us believe we are masters of own destiny, but new research is revealing...
Immunity to COVID-19 may persist six months or more
As coronavirus cases in the United States and around the world rise, scientists are uncovering...
Neanderthal thumbs better adapted to holding tools with handles
Credit: C0 Public Domain Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding tools in the same...
New Hubble data explains missing dark matter
This image shows the sky around the ultra diffuse galaxies NGC 1052-DF4 and NGC 1052-DF2. It...
Study revealing the secret behind a key cellular process refutes biology textbooks
A hairpin loop from a pre-mRNA. Highlighted are the nucleobases (green) and the ribose-phosphate backbone...
Researchers peer inside deadly pathogen’s burglary kit
The three-dimensional structure of a protein called the stringent starvation protein A, a member of...
How massive long-necked dinosaurs rose to rule the Jurassic herbivores
Long-necked sauropods, the largest animals ever to walk on Earth, may have thundered into dominance...
On a cool night in Malaysia, scientists track mysterious colugos across the treetops
My companions scanned the treetops with binoculars and a thermal-imaging monocular. I stared at the...