Watching proteins move as they drive the chemical reactions that sustain life is one of the grand challenges of modern ...

In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...

Through a combination of high-pressure experiments and optical spectroscopy, physicists have revealed new insights into the ...

The chemical foundations of life could be found in the frigid pockets of molecular clouds that exist in the space between stars, rather than on any planetary bodies. At the University of Aarhus in ...

Viral DNA that is usually dismissed when sequencing the human genome could help to uncover useful information about complex ...

Legionella is a bacterium that occurs naturally in some aquatic environments and can proliferate in artificial installations ...

About 1 in 4 people suffer from an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. These include panic disorder with sudden, severe anxiety attacks; generalized anxiety disorder, in which sufferers ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

A study published in The BMJ looks at time trends in a male to female ratio for autism diagnosis. Dr Monique Botha, Associate Professor in Social and Developmental Psychology, Durham University, said: ...

An MIT study suggests some early life forms may have evolved the ability to use oxygen hundreds of millions of years before ...