Researchers discover new antibiotic in tropical forest
In a new study, researchers have discovered an antibiotic produced by a soil bacterium from a Mexican tropical forest.
The new finding may help lead...
New graphene filter could remove bacteria from the air
Airborne bacteria may see what looks like a comfy shag carpet on which to settle.
But it's a trap.
Rice University scientists have transformed their laser-induced...
Plants could alert neighbors when they come under attack from pests
There’s long been a theory that talking to plants can help them grow better.
But what if plants themselves could “talk” to each other?
New research...
Scientists detect Golden Ratio in human skulls
The Golden Ratio, described by Leonardo da Vinci and Luca Pacioli as the Divine Proportion, is an infinite number often found in nature, art...
Female orgasm is evolution’s happy gift
Aristotle was puzzled. Freud had his own ideas.
But no one theory has satisfactorily answered the question: Why do women have orgasms?
Orgasms in human females...
Life’s building blocks may have formed in interstellar clouds
An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life -- nucleobases -- could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the...
We are all mutants, more or less
Everyone is a mutant but some are prone to diverge more than others, report scientists at University of Utah Health.
At birth, children typically have...
Rare 10 million-year-old fossil unearths new view of human evolution
Human ancestors might not have been built like modern African apes, a new study suggests.
Near an old mining town in Central Europe, known for...
The Swiss Army Knife of gene editing gets new control
When researchers want to edit, activate, or silence a gene in any living organism, from bacteria to humans, they often turn to CRISPR/Cas9, a...
Large study shows there is no “gay gene”
In a new study, researchers found that there is no single “gay gene” that could determine one’s sexual orientation.
They found a person's attraction to...