Our experiences leave traces in the brain, stored in small groups of cells called engrams. Engrams are thought to hold the ...
A team of Chinese scientists has uncovered a hidden 3D structure in rice DNA that allows the crop to grow more grain while ...
For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...
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EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...
From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...
Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls. A team at Microsoft says it used artificial ...
When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.
New research suggests that two surprise pathogens were among the diseases that laid waste to the emperor’s vaunted Grande ...
The retreat from Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Grande Armée in 1812 was a cataclysmic event that marked the ...
Researchers uncover two previously undetected bacteria in teeth from Napoleon’s soldiers, revealing a possible combination of illness that ravaged his army in 1812.