Irene Curie was born in Paris, France, in 1897. In an unusual schooling setup, Irene was one of a group of children taught by ...

The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the ...

Andrea Richard receives funding from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have ...

Scientists are exploring how RNA might have jump-started life four billion years ago and how it's now advancing drug ...

Low nitrogen availability is the number one limitation to plant growth in most ecosystems. Plants in the bean family and other closely related families evolved a symbiotic relationship with bacteria ...

Can you imagine falling 10,000 meters (33,000 ft) from a plane, being trapped underwater for days or surviving a massive radioactive discharge? All this seems like a death sentence, but today you’re ...

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...

Baryons are the class of subatomic particles that includes protons and neutrons ... In the 1990s, scientists analyzed the elements created by the Big Bang and calculated that baryonic matter should ...

There are scientific explanations for this, including theories about layers of particles in the nucleus, and “magic numbers” of protons and neutrons that may be stable in combination. If we can find ...

There is usually one bit of genomic DNA in a bacterial cell that encodes for most of its functions, but bacteria can carry other bits of genetic material like plasmids, which could carry a gene for ...