Tracking down the whale-shark highway

Researchers recently discovered that whale sharks in the Eastern Tropical Pacific follow fronts -- the dynamic…

Breastfeeding reduces risk of endometriosis diagnosis

Women who breastfed for longer periods of time had significantly lower risk of being diagnosed with…

Understanding perceptions of reputation, identity offers opportunity, study shows

Regardless of how people personally view another person, they also are aware of how that person…

New bar set for water-splitting, CO2-splitting techniques

Researchers have significantly boosted the efficiency of two techniques, for splitting water to create hydrogen gas…

Bioengineering a functional vascularized lung scaffold

A team of researchers is the first to successfully bioengineer a functional lung with perfusable and…

Peptide mass fingerprinting can identify whale species based solely on their baleen

Peptide mass fingerprinting accurately identified 10 species of whales from their baleen alone, according to a…

Human settlement in the Americas may have occurred in the late Pleistocene

Analysis of a skeleton found in the Chan Hol cave near Tulum, Mexico, suggests human settlement…

Environmental chemist flashes warning light on new nanoparticle

Layered BP's cytotoxicity is based on the fact that it generates reactive oxygen species (ROS), scientists…

Gut bacteria that ‘talk’ to human cells may lead to new treatments

Scientists developed a method to genetically engineer gut bacteria to produce molecules that have the potential…

Blunting CRISPR’s ‘scissors’ gives new insight into autoimmune disorders

A research team has used a modified version of the gene-editing technique CRISPR to find enhancers…