Going by the headlines, the matter seems to be settled. El País announces that Neanderthal men "chose" sapiens women. Science ...

To mitigate the economic shocks triggered by the escalating conflict in the Middle East, the Board of Directors of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has approved a US$10 billion Gulf Crisis ...

Every cell in your body faces the same engineering puzzle: how to cram roughly two meters of DNA into a nucleus just a few ...

Scientists have identified a new RNA molecule that may play a key role in improving survival in cancer patients.

Beyond the rather low efficiency of today’s solar panels in converting the power of the sun into electricity, the ...

Countless people throughout history have helped shape our world, yet too often their contributions are conveniently folded ...

About 1,500 years ago, in what is now South Korea, a gruesome practice known as ‘sunjang’ dictated that servants, retainers, ...

Cancer is a complex disease that develops when cells in the body grow out of control. For many years, scientists have tried to understand exactly how normal cells turn into cancer cells. We already ...

A key feature of this process is natural competence, the ability of bacteria to take up free DNA from their surroundings. V. cholerae becomes naturally competent when it grows on chitinous surfaces, a ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that a specific long non-coding RNA activates oncogenic signaling pathways ...

Composer Mark Orton brings scores for "Abril," "A Simple Machine," and "Our Mr. Matsura" to Portland Panorama 2026, plus a ...