Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new platform to create biologic drugs using specially engineered bacteria that burst and release useful proteins when they sense that their capsule is becoming too crowded.

NASA’s Aqua Satellite provided data on Major Hurricane Humberto that revealed its structure was changing as it was moving through the North Atlantic Ocean and past Bermuda.

New research discovery of SMART, MIT’s Research Enterprise in Singapore, in collaboration with MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center (LBRC), enables scientists to study, for the first time, membrane mechanics of cell’s nucleus.

A solid tumour can cause muscle cells in the body to self-destruct.

Northeastern Texas has borne the brunt of Tropical Depression Imelda’s heavy rainfall and NASA estimated that rainfall with an algorithm that incorporates data from satellites and observations.

A Swansea University doctoral student has found a way to view the life of plants and animals in murky waters – by using a lens of freshwater.

Knowing when and how this weather pattern occurs gives scientists an ability to say what weather will be like in the future.

Guppies, a perennial pet store favorite, have helped a UC Riverside scientist unlock a key question about evolution:

Do animals evolve in response to the risk of being eaten, or to the environment that they create in the absence of predators? Turns out, it’s the latter. 

Since 1900, global average sea level has risen about 8 inches. In New Jersey, sea level has risen even faster – about 1.4 feet over that same period. 

Better conservation and management of fish stocks is on the horizon, after the completion of the brown trout reference genome by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators.