Scientists

Our DNA is not indestructible. Throughout the course of our lives, DNA can break in response to natural and environmental factors. Thankfully, our bodies have dedicated enzymes and pathways which can glue our broken DNA back together…

Fabrication of piezoelectric films, micro-patterns and nanoparticles. Credit: adapted from Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42159-9…

Slumbering among thousands of bacterial strains in a collection of natural specimens at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, several fragile vials held something unexpected, and possibly very…

There are many creatures on our planet with more advanced senses than humans. Turtles can sense Earth's magnetic field. Mantis shrimp can detect polarized light. Elephants can hear much lower frequencies than humans can. Butterflies can…

Binghamton University Associate Professor of Computer Science Shiqi Zhang and his students have programmed a robot guide dog to assist the visually impaired. The robot…

Children who are the youngest in their class to be identified with ADHD are just as likely to keep the diagnosis as older pupils in their year group, scientists have found. Experts from the University of Southampton and Paris Nanterre…

Neuroscientists have uncovered a key brain area in rats that encodes the value of economic choices when faced with the uncertainty of a lottery. This is the first time the causal role of frontal and parietal cortex has been tested in…

A new study from Queen Mary University of London, published in The Lancet's EClinicalMedicine, has found that people may experience long-term symptoms -- or 'long colds' -- after acute respiratory infections that test negative for COVID-19.…

Cara Murez WEDNESDAY, Aug. 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- An international research team has achieved the first complete sequencing of the human Y chromosome, which is closely linked to male…

Genetically speaking, we are individuals different from each other because of slight variations in our DNA sequences -- so-called genetic variants -- some of which have dramatic effects we can see and comprehend, from the color of our eyes…