A large survey of ticks across three Zambian provinces identifies twelve species and reveals sharp differences between ...

Life is remarkably selective. Life relies on many molecules with what is termed “handedness”—they’re chemically identical but are mirror images of each other. Most chemical reactions will make a 50/50 ...

Scientists have debated for decades whether the human brain sprouts new neurons throughout life. What would it mean if it could — and how much evidence is enough?

Russian officials have reportedly placed 200 people under medical observation and quarantined the hospital where a 28-year-old lab worker died of a suspected case of plague in Siberia. We learn more ...

Today, Francis Halzen, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of physics, was named the recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden. The ...

The Biological Laboratories at 16 Divinity Avenue first opened in 1931. In the 95 years of its existence, the storied ...

Reducing consumption of animal products could lower the risk of chronic diseases and some infections while reducing ...

Baylor College of Medicine scientists are working with United Therapeutics to study xenolivers, genetically modified pig ...

Florida State University’s distinguished faculty are central to the mission of the university. Faculty excellence in ...

Enceladus is covered in ice, but that layer might hide a subsurface ocean. Researchers have long wondered if the salty body ...

Penn State’s microbiome sciences dual-title doctoral program has reached a milestone with the graduation of its first student ...