At 10 one-millionths of a meter wide, a single human cell is tiny. But something even smaller exerts an enormous influence on ...

Discover how bowhead whale longevity, 200-year lifespan and remarkable DNA repair may unlock secrets to slow human ageing. Learn what science reveals today.

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

The world celebrates science today. The United Nations proclaimed November 10th World Science Day for Peace and Development ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, allowing researchers to map the ...

Thirty years after it scrapped racial segregation, South Africa seeks to recover a founding story that inspired ideas of ...

A Lexington One parent says he was stunned to learn his child went nine weeks without any science lessons, even though classroom newsletters said otherwise. Jay, a Deerfield Elementary School parent, ...

Israeli and US scientists have discovered how tiny gateways in human cells control what enters and leaves the cell's nucleus, solving a mystery that has puzzled researchers and could shed new light on ...

A 410-million-year-old fossil shows ancient lichens were shaping Earth’s surface long before forests took root.

Scientists at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, have discovered how a gene-regulating protein forms ...