Sampling the radiation To understand the phylogenetic relationships between Alpine whitefish, we carried out whole-genome resequencing on 96 previously collected whitefish (with associated phenotypi… [+25365 chars]
Our Earth is the only planet in the Solar system where life exists, and the reason behind it is Earth's magnetic field that acts as a protective shield against the solar wind. However, things were no… [+1673 chars]
On a July evening in 1997, Jennifer Trosper drove home from work at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory holding a picture of the Martian surface to her steering wheel. Earlier that day, the agencys Pathf… [+6292 chars]
Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and their collaborators have used DNA to overcome a nearly insurmountable obstacle to engineer materials that would revolutionize electroni… [+4283 chars]
Deep in northern Ecuador’s dense, humid cloud forests, at the very tip of a single frond of a single fern, the population of one of the world’s rarest frogs was poised to increase—hopefully. Photogr… [+3340 chars]