“Discovering DNA related to the black widow spider toxin gene came as a total surprise," researcher says

Sandia National Laboratories’ Algae Raceway Testing Facility: Bringing biofuel research out of the flask and into the pond.

Reactions looks at how hormones including estrogen and progesterone interact with secondary chemicals, which can lead to symptoms of PMS

Infrared spectroscopic imaging has been limited to studies of dried tissue samples because water molecules absorb and interfere with the infrared signal

These molecular machines are often as elaborate as man-made devices, but exactly how they work is much harder to understand because of their extremely small size

As animals, plants and microbes shed cells and produce waste, they drop traces of their DNA everywhere—in the air, soil and water

A study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society reports that these novel components can damage cells when they are exposed to light

Warming climate triggers changes in forests' impact on cleaner water

Changed plant types associated with loss of elephants in Ugandan national park

Details about the proposed new genus and species, Baracktrema obamai, are presented in an article in the current issue of The Journal of Parasitology

University of Notre Dame lab has been developing a novel class of larvicides known as Yeast Interfering Larvicides that kill nearly 100 percent of larvae in a laboratory setting

Utah State University researchers develop model to improve arid-region wetlands