Scientists have puzzled over the existence of photorespiration, a seemingly wasteful process in plants that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Now UC Davis plant scientist Arnold Bloom has ...

Lead author Wes Walsh, his tattoo of Agelenopsis pennsylvanica (the Pennsylvanian grass spider) and one of the inspirations for this study, a live Platycryptus undatus (tan jumping spider).

A new study examines the agricultural and economic trade-offs that come with installing solar arrays on working farms across ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), on behalf of the Numerical Propulsion System Simulation (NPSS®) Consortium, has released a new version of the NPSS software. NPSS 3.3 adds new functionalities, ...

Lampropeltis knoblochi, or the Southern Arizona mountain kingsnake, was delimited as a distinct species from the Northern Arizona mountain kingsnake, or Lampropeltis pyromelana.

Lampropeltis pyromelana, the Arizona mountain kingsnake found in the northern region of Arizona, is genetically distinct from its southern counterpart, Lampropeltis knoblochi.

Cavities and severe gum disease in childhood are linked to a significantly higher incidence of heart attack, stroke and coronary artery disease in adulthood, according to a new study from the ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have identified a molecular “switch” that determines whether pancreatic cancer cells resist chemotherapy or respond to it—a finding that could help convert some ...

In a new commentary, two deeply rooted assumptions in global demographic debates are challenged: that fertility will rebound as societies develop, and that “replacement-level fertility” is an ideal to ...

An exploratory clinical trial from the University of Pittsburgh suggests that low‑dose oral lithium may help slow the decline of verbal memory, or ability to remember and recall words and sentences, ...

In a new study led by the University of Michigan, researchers have shown that batteries have gotten a lot better over the ...

A newly developed hybrid photonic platform couples a tungsten disulfide monolayer to Mie void resonators—subwavelength air cavities carved into a high-index bismuth telluride substrate.