An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...

Researchers have developed eye drops that extend vision in animal models of a group of inherited diseases that lead to progressive vision loss in humans, known as retinitis pigmentosa.

So, blobfish don’t really look like melting ice cream in their natural environment. Underwater, they’re shaped like tadpoles: ...

Meniscus tears are common knee injuries that have long frustrated patients and doctors due to limited repair options. A new ...

Scientists in Basel revealed that energy-producing proteins in mitochondria form large supercomplexes, boosting ATP ...

Mitochondria are the powerhouses in our cells, producing the energy for all vital processes. Using cryo-electron tomography, ...

A consortium of Austrian research groups from the University of Vienna, MedUni Vienna and Technikum Wien, together with ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

Meniscus tears are common knee injuries that have long frustrated patients and doctors due to limited repair options.

New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...