If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation,” writes ...

The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...

Scientists have long considered the complexity of language to be an obvious separation between humans and all other life ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is accelerating spatial biology research with announcement of $160,000 worth of ...

A new study has found that the world's finest yodellers aren't from Austria or Switzerland, but the rainforests of Latin America. The research provides significant new insights into the diverse vocal ...

Bone can heal itself, but not always in the ways we expect. Some animals regrow entire limbs. Others, like humans, can only ...

The study, published in The Lancet, a team from the Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College London Institute of ...

Later, Wacław Szybalski popularized the term in 1974 in reference to genetic engineering, but little did he know that one day ...

Chirality refers to the three-dimensional molecular asymmetry that prevents a molecule from being superimposed on its mirror ...

English and math. In addition to the basic science of the human body, programs focus on understanding the ever-changing ...

Acquired resistance genes may allow bacteria to degrade or chemically modify antibiotics, rendering them ineffective. They ...

Research from Weill Cornell Medicine has identified a molecular pathway linking omega-6 linoleic acid—a common dietary fat in ...