Why do we crave cookies? When we're sad, when we're celebrating, when we're bored. There are scientific reasons we reach for our favorite baked goods this time of year.

Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a specialized function. Researchers have long known that the ...

Karlee Campbell, 30, returned to her alma mater South Beauregard High School to give back and teach. She attended South ...

New research has investigated the mechanism by which bivalency functions to poise genes for expression during cell differentiation, providing insight into a long-standing paradigm in the regulation of ...

The luxury-goods company’s shares plunged after it said it was parting ways with its chief executive before the end of his ...

As the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation review grants and programming for verboten ...

Our biological sciences students explore the complexities of life and work to address global challenges in biology. Our faculty advance knowledge in a wide range of disciplines within the biological ...

As agents arrive in Chicago and other cities, elaborate operations are springing into action—aiming to hinder authorities.

To make it there, hummingbirds sometimes enter a short-term hibernation of sorts, slowing their respiratory, heart and metabolic rates for several hours at a time to a point where some birds have been ...

After four years of trying to use dogs to make cougars in northeastern Washington more wary of people, researchers have their conclusion.

Research maintains that the natural limit for human lifespan is about 122 years, based on the fact that the longest-living ...

Mississippi's universities are scrambling to gauge the impact of a White House memo temporarily freezing federal grants.