Harvard researchers offer new views of body’s insulating material.

Team developing LC/MS methods, bioinformatics tools for discovery of metabolic regulatory mechanisms.

Protecting wildlife while feeding a world population predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050 will require a holistic approach to conservation that considers human-altered landscapes such as farmland, according to Stanford researchers.

Renishaw, the global engineering technologies company, is delighted to announce that it has received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2014 in the Innovations category for its inVia Raman microscope.

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope confirms -- for the first time -- that planets the size of Earth exist in the habitable zone of stars other than our Sun.

The Broad Institute announced April 15 that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the first patent for an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 system that is enabling scientists to modify genes and better understand the biology of living cells and organisms. The institute applied for the patent in concert with the January 3, 2013 publication in Science (Cong, et al.) that described the use of the CRISPR enzyme, Cas9, for genome editing.

Inexpensive computers, cell phones, and other systems that substitute flexible plastic for silicon chips may be one step closer to reality, thanks to new research published in the journal Nature Communications.

For fear of retaliation, birds accept and raise brood parasites’ young

U.S. Forest Service Study Suggests Climate is Not the Only Factor Ushering in Change

Scientists at the Salk Institute have created a new model of memory that explains how neurons retain select memories a few hours after an event.

On the scale of earth-friendly materials, you’d be hard pressed to find two that are farther apart than polyester (not at all) and cork (very). In an unexpected twist, however, scientists are figuring out how to extract a natural, waterproof, antibacterial version of the first material from the latter.

Properly storing hazardous chemicals is an important part of many labs’ safety programs. But you wouldn’t expect it to be an issue in someone’s home. However, that’s just what firefighters discovered in a house in Seattle April 8 while giving one of the home’s residents a hand walking down his stairs, according to a USA Today article.