A 23-year-old has apparently found the solution to a famous difficult math conjecture called an Erdős problems by prompting ...

A Moffitt Cancer Center researcher has introduced a new model that addresses one of biology's most fundamental questions: How does genetic information keep living systems organized and therefore alive ...

The star-studded event celebrated achievements by the world’s top scientists in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and ...

The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 25 international members in recognition of ...

Somewhere in your skull right now, there is no math department. No region of the brain exists solely to process equations, ...

“Everyone learns many mathematical operations in school: fractions, roots, logarithms, and trigonometric functions […] each ...

Their discovery started with a group of blind dogs living at a vet school. Now, the work has been awarded the prestigious ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that simple.

Uri Alon was long puzzled by a textbook statistic: Longevity, the thinking went, was about 20 percent in our genes. “That makes you think what’s the rest of the 80 percent: Is it the lifestyle? Why ...

This week, the media picked up on a recently published article in Developmental Science by researchers at Johns Hopkins (Libertus, Fiegneson, and Halbreda, 2011) suggesting that children as young as ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health traits. By probing regions of DNA previously linked to disease, the work has ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Investigators looking to track down Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnappers are turning to a relatively new technology that has been attributed to solving some of the most prolific ...