Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such ...

The human brain, like the brain of other mammals, is known to start developing before birth, via a coordinated sequence of ...

New data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an "atom smasher" at the U.S. Department of ...

As night settled across northern Vietnam, a "large" creature with spines on its belly sat near a waterfall. Its "dark green" ...

This active transport process creates differences in pressure and solute concentration, and in response, water moves in and out of cells via transmembrane channels known as aquaporins. The resulting ...

John Etnyre receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Elaine M. Hubbard Distinguished Faculty Award When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re ...

Now, researchers have found the first evidence of changes taking place over the past 20 years in the shape of the inner core. Signs of the core’s deformation appeared in waves from earthquakes ...

"The shape changes completely with the environment," he said. "This is really the point of nanophotonics, that by shaping the environment, we can really shape the photon itself." The team's ...

That's like saying the shape of a single electron orbital (e.g. in hydrogen) is the shape of the electron. It's a stance one can take, but it's not how this language is usually applied. We usually ...

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

Aquaporin-0 forms 2D crystals in the lens of the eye ... The exact mechanism is not clear, but the authors propose that the so-called "deep cholesterol" improves shape complementarity between adjacent ...

But over time, birds from different islands evolved different beak shapes — from long to short, and curved to straight — to better eat the food on those islands. Biologists can even see this ...