Their study, published online this month in Molecular Genetics and Genomics, casts doubt on the old notion of a tradeoff between reproduction and longevity.Popular wisdom and scientific opinion have held that “the more you reproduce the shorter you’re going to live,” said senior author John Tower, associate professor of biological sciences at USC….
Our immune system plays an essential role in protecting us from diseases, but how does it do this exactly? Dutch biologist Suzanne van Helden discovered that…
The international team of researchers, including a researcher at University College London (UCL), used the IRAM radio telescope in France to detect the…
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Considered to be the smallest, most chemically inert and least polarizable of the 117 known chemical elements, helium has been challenging chemists for…
Most people have used a library but very few will have visited historical archives. Unlike libraries, archives are primarily concerned with conserving records…