The origin of life is surely one of the most important questions in biology. How did inanimate molecules give rise to the ...

A new mass spectrometry technique captures molecules of lower abundance in a sample, providing a more comprehensive sample ...

Weight says a lot. In the kitchen, it could mean cooking with too little or too much of an ingredient. For scientists, a ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Cifani lab has developed a new mass spectrometry technique that pushes the performance of ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing that the most revealing relics of ancient organisms are not their shapes ...

The NBA is back in our lives, and there is much reason to rejoice. But not all seasons are created equal. Each new campaign launches with limitless possibility. Then the games begin and reality comes ...

I’ve always been fascinated by people who seem effortlessly interesting. I used to get jealous of them, but not anymore. Wildly interesting people are a source of fascination to me, and often, it’s ...

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This challenges the idea that sleep is solely brain-driven, instead suggesting it ...

If Wenjun Zhang has her way, no one will ever have to brush or floss again. Zhang, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is trying to distinguish the healthy bacteria in ...