Ginkgo biloba may aid in treating type 2 diabetes

Ginkgo Biloba, one of the oldest living trees species, may offer some clues in better treatments…

Tracing the evolution of vision

The function of the visual photopigment rhodopsin and its action in the retina to facilitate vision…

Scientists successfully innoculate, grow crops in salt-damaged soil

Researchers may have found a way to reverse falling crop yields caused by increasingly salty farmlands…

Early life on Earth limited by enzyme

A single enzyme found in early single-cell life forms could explain why oxygen levels in the…

Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data

The mass of the lightest neutrino, an abundant ‘ghost’ particle found throughout the universe, has been…

Materials scientists build a synthetic system with compartments like real cells

Polymer chemists and materials scientists have achieved some notable advances that mimic Nature, but one of…

Certain metabolites linked to stem cell function in the intestine

Researchers have found that high levels of ketone bodies, molecules produced by the breakdown of fat,…

Scorpion toxin that targets 'wasabi receptor' may help solve mystery of chronic pain

Researchers have discovered a scorpion toxin that targets the ‘wasabi receptor,’ a chemical-sensing protein found in…

Community Letter regarding NASA’s Lunar Discovery and Exploration Program

Community Letter regarding NASA’s Lunar Discovery and Exploration Program Click here for original story,…

Rising summer heat could soon endanger travelers on annual Muslim pilgrimage

Over two million Muslim travelers just finished the annual religious pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, traveling…