Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

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A research team at the University of Würzburg has deciphered another aspect of poxviral gene activation. They have revealed a ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

Willpower is not purely a personality trait. Aging, obesity, insulin resistance, and inflammation may impair frontal brain ...

Scientists in Korea are developing a comfortable light therapy hat that they hope will help with hair loss and growth. In lab ...

An EEG (electroencephalogram) is a painless test that uses small sensors placed on the scalp to measure the brain's ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Plant a tomato from your refrigerator, and you might grow dinner for months…or you might grow a lesson in disappointment. The grocery store seed hack promises cheap abundance, and sometimes it ...

More than 30 years ago, a group of scientists planted 4,200 seeds of the rare Pitcher’s thistle in the sandy dunes of the ...

U.S. Department of Energy has awarded University of Nevada, Reno a $9 million grant to study cactus pear as a climate resilient biomass biofuel feedstock.

The Trade-off Between Physiological Authenticity and Experimental Convenience: Navigating the Cellular Foundation of ...