A 6,000-year-old fruit fly gave the world modern cheeses and yogurts

Historians often trace the dawn of human civilization back 10,000 years, when Neolithic tribes first settled…

SpaceX Dragon heads to space station with NASA science

A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after launching…

Simple experiment explains magnetic resonance

Physicists at University of California, Riverside, have designed an experiment to explain the concept of magnetic…

Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining

Resting atop Thomas Peacock’s desk is an ordinary-looking brown rock. Roughly the size of a potato,…

35-year data record charts sea-temperature change

Four trillion satellite measurements, taken over four decades from 1981 to 2018, have been merged to…

Nanocontainers for targeted drug delivery

RUDN University bioengineers have created magnetic nanocontainers for smart delivery of drugs to the desired organs…

The surprising individuality of microRNAs

In order for the instructions contained within a gene to ultimately execute some function in the…

Barriers to reintegration lead to poorer health for the formerly incarcerated

Formerly incarcerated individuals with barriers to re-entry and service needs following their release are subsequently more…

Pioneering research gives fresh insight into one of the pivotal building blocks of life

The quest to better understand how genomic information is read has taken a new step forward,…

Dial-a-frog: Researchers develop the 'FrogPhone' to remotely call frogs in the wild

Researchers have developed the ‘FrogPhone’, a novel device which allows scientists to call up a frog…