When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

Your urine can tell you a lot about your reproductive health hormones. Unfortunately, at-home testing can be cumbersome, ...

The hilarious and food-loving Raphael Gomes performs more simple science experiments using everyday foods to uncover ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

A global catalog shows how creatures across the tree of life balance rigidity with flexibility in remarkably consistent ways ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

For the first time, researchers have managed to isolate and directly observe individual oxygen atoms inside liquid water, catching a substance that usually hides behind the familiar H2O formula in the ...

Sean Ryder, professor at UMass Chan Medical School, has written a book to delve the mysteries of ribonucleic acid as a tool to fight diseases. Messenger ribonucleic acid, or mRNA, is in the public ...

Katy has a BA in Humanities and Philosophy, with over 20 years of experience in online and print publishing. She was named ...

In geometry, there are surfaces that do without an inside or outside—and some need at least four dimensions to exist ...