In one of Earth’s driest, most harsh environments, scientists uncovered a micro-miracle. Down in Fumarole Bay on Deception Island, Antarctica, scientists discovered Bacillus licheniformis strain ...

Xylem vessel pits are tiny openings on the cell wall of water-conducting cells—with pit geometry influencing crop yield through its effect on plant hydraulics and nitrogen transport.

A bioactive compound produced by the microorganism Bacillus licheniformis, found on Deception Island in Antarctica, has ...

2016: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines." The trio took chemistry ...

October 27, 1938 was a special day in the history of nylon. For it was on that day that its makers announced it officially, to a crowd of 4,000 women. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at how this fibre came to ...

In some of the Asian-populated areas, many Asians are gathering and digging out okra, a finger-shaped vegetable, from full ...

Low-carb diets promise leaner bodies and better health. For many, they seem to work like magic. Some experts and influencers ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy technique that captures how enzymes move and ...

Texas’s factory sector recorded weaker conditions this month as production slowed, according to a monthly survey. The Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey’s index for general business activity, released ...

Aviroop Biswas receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. The Institute for Work & Health is supported in part through ...

Short bursts of purposeful activity — such as walking around the block or lifting small weights — may be the best way to get in the habit of exercising. Bite-sized bits of exercise also improve heart ...

Normal activities resumed at the University of Delaware after students were evacuated from three buildings on campus on Tuesday, due to police activity. Before noon on Tuesday, campus officials sent ...