What if we could estimate a shark’s age from a small blood sample rather than counting growth rings in its vertebrae? New ...

They are tiny, termite-like insects that spend much of their lives hidden beneath bark or inside decaying wood. Yet angel ...

A patent-pending method developed and tested for multiple applications at Purdue University eliminates sample preparation, a ...

This important study identifies and characterizes a set of amino acid states that can rescue protein function in the presence of substantially deleterious mutations. Some of these super-compensatory ...

Humans make thousands of decisions under ambiguity every day, where most times the probabilities of getting beneficial outcomes are not fully known. Although ambiguity aversion is well characterized ...

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...

Coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) is a growing public health concern in the western U.S., with California reporting more than an eightfold rise in cases over the past two decades. As climate change, ...

A configurable bioengineered multitissue platform with vascular circulation enables investigation of human breast cancer ...