Profiting from the fight against corruption

Governments get richer when NGOs band together to fight official corruption, game theorists at HEC Montréal…

A perfect storm of fire and ice may have led to snowball Earth

What caused the largest glaciation event in Earth's history, known as 'snowball Earth'? Geologists and climate…

The controversial origin of a symbol of the American west

New research has identified North America's oldest bison fossils and helped construct a bison genealogy establishing…

Pre-existing immunity to dengue virus shapes Zika-specific T cell response

Although Zika and dengue are considered different virus “species,” they are so closely related that the…

For hospitalized patients, spending more on care doesn’t buy better health

Hospitalized patients treated by physicians who order more or more expensive tests and procedures are just…

Parallel cellular pathways activate the process that controls organ growth

While proteins that control organ growth accumulate around the edges of cells, they actually function at…

How cells communicate to move together as a group

A new signaling system has been discovered that epithelial cells use to coordinate their individual movements…

Chemists color world of 3-D crystals with advances in self-assembly

A team of chemists has created self-assembled, three-dimensional DNA crystals that can bind a separate, dye-bearing…

‘Good’ bacteria is potential solution to unchecked inflammation seen in bowel diseases

In a new report, researchers describe how inflammation can go unchecked in the absence of a…

Light scattering spectroscopy helps doctors identify early pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate among all major cancers, largely because physicians lack diagnostic…