Scientists at Florida International University have identified a promising way to safely ship fish long distances without ...

August Weismann's germ plasm theory of the late 19th century posited that only germ cells, e.g., sperm and egg cells in ...

Chocolate prices have jumped again this Easter, and it has a lot of people concerned about how much higher they can go—and ...

New research suggests that neutrinos in the early universe may have transformed into a previously unknown form of radiation.

Polarization has always been a core property of light that is essential for a broad range of everyday applications, including ...

Take a typical fish out of the water and it won't live long. It gets the oxygen it needs from the water it swims in. In a ...

Control of heat transport in nanostructures is of central importance for numerous modern technologies—from high-performance ...

A research team reports they have created an organic reaction called α-allylation with simple ketones and allyl alcohols.

Scientists at Rothamsted Research have successfully developed wheat with dramatically reduced levels of asparagine, without ...

Conventional weapons are generally presented as controllable, proportionate and morally acceptable, unlike weapons of mass ...

Quantum mechanics is extremely successful at describing the behavior of matter at the atomic level. This success forces one ...

A new study by Harvard biologists reveals how octopuses feel their way to potential mates with a "taste by touch" sensory ...