How do plants breathe? When do they open and close the tiny pores on their leaves, and what does this mean for their water balance? A research team led by Marburg physicist Professor Martin Koch has ...

Cancer cells are subjected to high mechanical pressure that leads to a rupture of the nuclear envelope when migrating through narrow tissue structures, as in the case of metastasis. DNA would normally ...

CRISPR-Cas systems are adaptive immune systems found in prokaryotes that defend against invading nucleic acids through CRISPR RNA-guided cleavage. Type V CRISPR-Cas (Cas12) systems, in particular, ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...

It is in complex animals that organs come into their own as a plethora of sophisticated, functional entities. How large that plethora is in a given animal species can vary depending on which biologist ...

Urgent manhunt for Charlie Kirk’s killer; New concerns about political violence after Charlie Kirk’s assassination; First day of testimony in trial of man accused of plotting to assassinate Trump; and ...

Dating dinosaur eggs is difficult: available methods are limited and prone to errors because measurement proxies – such as volcanic rocks or crystals – may have changed between egg laying and dating ...

Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields. Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University was honored for her 55-year career investigating how ...

Emirates has made a huge change to its First Class Cabin – and it’s not the best news for parents with young kids. For anyone who books the luxe cabin using Skywards Miles – whether it’s a full award ...

The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame announced Wednesday eight inductees for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2026, including recent Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Sylvia ...