In adapting to an environment, organisms theoretically have a variety of ways they can change to become more in tune with their surroundings

A system proposed by World War II codebreaker Alan Turing more than 60 years ago can explain the patterning of tooth-like scales possessed by sharks

Currently, physicians remove burned skin and discard it. They add a collagen dressing to the burned site, and hope the new skin regrows before the patient gets a fatal infection

Researchers used long-term records from more than 100 plots to track the lives of individual trees across the Amazon region

Researchers establish a method that integrates genetic and molecular data to reveal tissue-specific features that have novel associations with diseases

Study of huge Ancestry.com pedigree set suggests similar life spans between spouses may have inflated previous estimates of life span heritability

The hunt for flavor-giving fragments

It sounds like something straight out of Alice in Wonderland, but researchers generated mushrooms patterned with energy-producing bacteria and an electrode network

Neuroscientists have developed an electroencephalography-based test to objectively measure pain

The new technology, called Pattern to Knowledge (P2K), can predict the binding of biosequences in seconds

Kyoto University researchers map nanoscale changes in memory material

Measuring recoil from nuclear decay identifies isotopes