Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

Ed Feulner was a giant. The quintessential man in the arena, he lived his life to the fullest and gave this country something ...

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...

The British Columbia and federal governments have announced their support for an LNG export facility floating in waters off the province's ...

Much recent progress has been made in spintronics, for example, that spin loss can be converted back into magnetisation, making spintronics electronics even more energy-efficient, or that spintronics ...

Alternative approaches consist of flame spheroidization, where uneven silica particles are melted and improved into spheres by means of high-temperature plasma or fire treatment, and emulsion-based ...

Patricia got back into some looting and shooting with the latest Borderlands release, but does it blow us away or recoil us ...

Holding 100 metres of the DNA tape, the cassette is able to hold 36 petabytes of data – equivalent to 36,000 terabyte hard ...

A traditional cassette tape holds roughly 10 to 12 songs on each side, but 328 feet of this DNA cassette tape could hold the ...

MIT spinout Cache DNA has created a technology for room-temperature DNA storage, challenging the need for cold chain ...