Zinc sits at the heart of many bacterial enzymes, so one of our immune system's simplest defenses is to keep zinc out of ...
Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an ...
Despite being made from a relatively simple set of building blocks, ribonucleic acid (RNA) has a broad array of complex ...
Explaining the complex structure of tropical forests is one of the great challenges in ecology. An issue of special interest is the distribution of different sizes of trees, something which is of ...
In 1963, Popular Science reported on the Nobel Prize-winning discovery, and the woman who was left out of the accolades. By Bill Gourgey Published May 31, 2022 7:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science ...
An alternative to Einstein's theory of general relativity called "TeVeS" could describe the formation of cosmic structure without requiring the existence of dark matter, say physicists in the US (Phys ...
Amyloid-β is not the only component of the senile plaques that mark Alzheimer’s disease. Are the others mere bystanders that get caught in a web of Aβ fibrils, or are they more nefarious, instigating ...
LITTLETON, CO. – The common saying that “space is hard” may need redefinition, given the increasing use of softgoods to fashion inflatable structures from airlocks to habitats for future lunar and ...