“The metabolism is the body’s internal operating system,” said Ambika Ashraf, M.D., professor in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes and the Ralph Froshin Endowed Chair in Pediatric ...

Entropy is one of the most fundamental ideas in physics, yet it is often misunderstood. The concept explains why energy spreads out over time and why processes in nature seem to move in only one ...

Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith. Now, new research makes the case that the ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets. “All living organisms need nitrogen to ...

To compare these figures fairly, we must clarify what each one measures and how they interconnect. The Critical Insight: These are often two ways of describing the same battery performance. A ...

Some of the earliest large organisms left fossils that seem almost impossible for their setting, fragile bodies captured in coarse, energetic seafloor sediments. A new chemical “fingerprint” in the ...

Scientists have discovered a virus that makes amoeba cells swell to about twice their normal size and disrupts their nuclei, triggering replication. The newly described ushikuvirus may offer insights ...

Baby with rare heart defect given life-saving surgery A doctor with Cook Children's in Fort Worth helped to save the life of a newborn whose family was turned away from other hospitals. Baby Anna ...

Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook After revealing its plans to bring back a new and improved Steam Machine, Valve hasn’t shared much else about the ...

When Paddington first waddles on stage during the new West End musical based on the beloved bear, the audience at the Savoy Theatre can hardly contain their excitement. Exclamations of “aww,” loud ...