Sweaty palms, a pounding heart, a heightened sense of alertness — these are some of the physical sensations of stress that make it feel so uncomfortable. But in the future, we may experience stress ...
Genetic modification of viruses has long been used as a strategy to treat and prevent different types of diseases. Specifically, it consists of exploiting certain characteristics of viruses that make ...
Scientists have discovered the cause of a rare condition within a part of the genome that has been largely unexplored in medical genetics. A team at the University of Exeter has found genetic changes ...
Our planet is full of wonder and marvel, with some parts still remaining a mystery. Even with sophisticated satellites capturing vast amounts of data from above of our pale blue dot, vast regions ...
A scientific expedition this fall will map the unexplored Arctic seafloor where the U.S. and Canada may have sovereign rights over natural resources such as oil and gas and control over activities ...
About 17 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the first layer of the atmosphere meets the second one. At a boundary called the tropopause, the troposphere ends and the stratosphere begins. Straddling ...
A complete sequence of the human genome has finally been published by an international consortium of scientists. The new reference genome fills in many gaps that were left by earlier drafts, ...