Genes required for chromosomal small RNA are missing in certain duckweed species. This may explain the emergence of vigorous inter-species hybrids with three, rather than two, copies of each ...

You may have encountered duckweed thousands of times. The tiny aquatic plant can grow practically anywhere there’s standing water and sunlight, including here at Brooklyn’s iconic Prospect Park ...

Gels were created with different ratios of gum tragacanth to gelatin (top) to compare their properties to those of gum tragacanth (bottom left) on its own and of gelatin (bottom right) on its own.

UVA Engineering faculty members Sandhya Dwarkadas (from left), Patrick Hopkins and Venkat Lakshmi were elected fellows of the AAAS with the class of 2024. Fair use with attribution.

A female American Kestrel nestling with its recently attached VHF back-pack style transmitter in the Virginia Piedmont study area. Feathers cover all but the antenna.

Three American Kestrel fledglings wearing VHF transmitters and alpha-numeric color bands at the Hawk Mountain site.

UVA Health researcher Daniel J. Cox, PhD, has used the GEM program he developed to put his type 2 diabetes into remission for 15 years. The program emphasizes making educated food choices and doing ...

Researchers at Waseda University developed a more efficient method to create self-healing films using organosiloxane and polydimethylsiloxane layers. The process involves depositing a precursor ...

Dr. James Lim, associate professor of pediatrics at UBC’s faculty of medicine, removes chicken eggs from an incubator to study cancer cell development.

Dr. James Lim, associate professor of pediatrics at UBC’s faculty of medicine, observes pediatric cancer cells grown in a chicken egg under a microscope.

Tariq Bhat, PhD candidate at UBC’s faculty of medicine, opens a chicken egg into a petri dish where it will be used to grow a sample of a child’s tumour.