Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object—a starless, gas-rich, ...

Scientists detected gas at least five times hotter than previous theories had predicted inside a galaxy cluster from the ...

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked “monotocous” species, meaning it usually has one offspring per pregnancy, ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

The CDC estimated there have been at least 7.5 million illnesses in the U.S., 81,000 hospitalizations and 3,100 deaths from ...

The move to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug could spark new studies into pain, aging and women's health, Dr. Staci Gruber tells GBH's All Things Considered.

Comprehensive genomic testing in routine cancer care pathways has created the need to interpret the consequences of somatic (acquired) genomic variants beyond the currently well-characterised driver ...

European Chemicals Agency may classify ethanol as dangerous, linked to cancer - FT ECHA Biocidal Products Committee to meet in late November WHO classifies ethanol as safe for hand hygiene Oct 21 ...

Dr. Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester. A few years ago, on a flight, I was seated next to a man in his mid-20s. He looked at the astrobiology textbook I was reading ...

Abstract: In 2012, ACM defined a Computing Classification System (CCS), which substitutes an older version developed in 1998. This CCS relies on a semantic vocabulary as the single source of ...

Foraminifera (forams) are shelled microorganisms that are abundant in the Earth’s seabed. Analyzing different species of forams provides important information about climate change, the state of the ...