Richard Alley, Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences at Penn State, was awarded the National Medal of Science at a ...

URI professor Alison Roberts and colleagues have published a new study revealing that plants make cellulose microfibrils using a different class of enzymes called CSLD – an important discovery with ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Enzymes catalyze nearly all of the chemical reactions that occur in biological systems. Enzymes are generally proteins but also include catalytic DNA and catalytic RNA. As effective biological ...

Discover how liver cancer evades the body's natural defenses and explore the link between fatty liver disease and increased ...

Marine fungi, thriving in ocean environments, account for 5% of total ocean biomass but most are microscopic. Researchers ...

Magistrate Faith McGusty today ruled that the high-profile elections fraud case involving nine former election officials and political figures will begin afresh (de novo). The defence had asked ...

The EU has officially adopted USB-C as the common charging standard. EU consumers can now use a single USB-C charger for smartphones, tablets, cameras, headphones, gaming consoles, and other devices.

China claims to have achieved a ‘world record’ in shipbuilding by developing a massive cargo ship similar to its Fujian aircraft carrier. Named Fan Zhou 8, the cargo ship has an unprecedented ...

Exciting findings from CUNY researchers reveal a novel target in the fight against Alzheimer’s — harmful microglia activated by cellular stress. This could lead to therapies that reverse the damaging ...

These azoles antifungals target a crucial enzyme for sterol biosynthesis, called CYP51. While not fungi, both Leishmania species have biochemical similarities to fungi in their plasma membrane ...