In the international nomination Discovery ("Discovery") The winner was Valery Fokin, a professor at the University of Southern California. He received the award for inventing the reaction that defined ...

The biological conception of plant life, for centuries relegated to a secondary plane compared to animal dynamism, has ...

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

The beloved candy cane is everywhere during the holiday season — on store shelves, Christmas trees, gingerbread houses, front yards as blow-up decorations, and tucked into stockings.

Researchers announced over 70 new species in a single year, including bizarre insects, ancient dinosaurs, rare mammals, and ...

If your azaleas are starting to look a little yellow this time of year, you’re not alone.

If I asked you to name a holiday flower, my guess is poinsettia, amaryllis or paperwhite would be the first to come to mind.