A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping life's earliest molecular ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo has uncovered a ...

What if you could take a picture of every gene inside a living organism—not with light, but with DNA itself? Scientists at ...

After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

Stainless steel seems like it would be difficult to get dirty, but that's not really the case. That is, unless you're using ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Only recently has the ribosome - one of the oldest molecular machines in evolutionary terms - been recognized as an active regulator of gene expression at the level of protein biosynthesis.

Only recently has the ribosome—one of the oldest molecular machines in evolutionary terms—been recognized as an active ...

Since it was first synthesized in a post-WW2 American lab in 1949, berkelium has been a rebel of the periodic table, defying ...

60-inch cyclotron. Enough material has been made for chemical studies by tracer technique in the way in which the properties of element 93 (neptunium ; Np) and 94 (plutonium ; Pu) were first ...

Researchers have developed the Automatic Process Explorer (APE), an approach that enhances our understanding of atomic and molecular processes ... exploration of new structures, promoting ...