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One of my old professors used to say calculus is the language of the universe. Now, every so often, I'll watch trees in the wind, cars on the road, or clouds rolling by,...

Different rooms have their own temperature, humidity and light. So what's the forecast where you live? (full text available to subscribers)

Controversial herbal supplements, a prehistoric set of skeletons and the biggest pocket of gold are three of the coolest science stories this week.

(Biophysical Society) Not unlike an urban restaurant, the success of a bacterial cell depends on three things: localization, localization and localization. But the complete set of controls by which bacteria control the m...

The Withings Activité Pop is a fitness tracker for people who don't want to look like they're wearing a fitness tracker.

Combining experimental data from X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, cryoelectron microscopy and lipidomics, researchers have built a complete model of the outer envelope of an influenza A virion for the first time....

By employing derivatives of humanin, a naturally occurring peptide encoded in the genome of cellular mitochondria, researchers are working to interrupt necrosis, buying precious time for tissues whose cellular mechanisms...

Good drugs are hard to design: they must not only effectively treat a medical condition, but they must also do so without having side effects that outweigh their benefits. Sometimes, toxic side effects aren't discovered ...

A large percentage of the world's population -- fully one third, by the World Health Organization's estimates -- is currently overweight or obese. This staggering statistics has made finding ways to address obesity a top...