For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that controls the melody and rhythm of how we speak and sing.

Scientists at the FMI and the University of California-Santa Cruz have found that similar molecular machineries control daily ...

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

The chains of amino acids that make up proteins are critical to every form of life. The complex ways that these proteins fold ...

Studying the ways that magenta and yellow flowers intermingle paints a vibrant picture of how the plants exchange genetic ...

Natural selection uses duplicated genes as raw material for functional innovation, co-opting their existing features to new functions. Understanding genetic innovation requires two questions to be ...

When you are attracted to someone, you have to fulfill each other's needs to live a happy life with each other. They have to ...

The manuscript by Hensley and Yildez studies the mechanical behavior of kinesin under conditions where the z-component of the applied force is minimized. The important study shows that much of the ...

Initiation of translation of the hepatitis C virus genome is mediated by an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) element in the 5′ untranslated region (5′ UTR) of HCV genomic RNA 1,2. Normal ...

Two senior officials at the FDA's drug promotion regulatory office have resigned, leading to speculation that a clampdown on some direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of medicines could be on the way.