As indivisible units of life, the cells of all organisms consist of four fundamental macromolecular components: nucleic acids (including DNA and RNA), proteins, lipids and glycans. From the ...

All around the Universe, clouds of gas and dust swirl between stars, hiding tiny, reactive molecules that could hold answers ...

Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians ...

Nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) are polymers of nucleotides – each nucleotide consists of a pentose sugar, a phosphate group and one of the nitrogenous bases (purines and pyrimidines). Nucleic acids ...

Researchers at the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht have observed the formation of nanocavities in montmorillonite clay ...

High uric acid levels, or hyperuricemia, can lead to kidney stones and gout. While not a direct cause of kidney disease like diabetes or hypertension, ...

Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them By Jeremiah Bartz , University of North Dakota Updated ...

While there’s progress in the Pentagon’s development of a 360-degree missile defense for Guam, it still lacks some of the most basic building blocks to sustain it, such as a ...

A group of residents at Quincy, Massachusetts, is suing to block the city from installing two statues of Catholic saints outside its new public safety building. The Quincy mayor, Thomas Koch, ...

The sharp turnaround on mRNA vaccines shows an unprecedented rise of anti-vaccine activists to power and an attack on accepted science.

If we see education as building blocks that mold an entire human person, however, then everything changes. A well-crafted GE curriculum, with interdisciplinary engagement in one’s chosen field, should ...