The list below offers a representative sample of the courses you can expect in the study of cellular and molecular biology at DePauw. From theoretical foundations to practical experiences, these ...

Cryogenics, the science of extremely low temperatures, has captivated both the scientific community and the general public. Its application to human freezing, known as cryonics, brings hope for future ...

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...

About 80% of orange cats are males, including the four orange cats owned by the Short Wave team: Zuko, Benny, Tang and Dorito. Scientists have long suspected that their orange color was a sex-linked ...

If you learned about biology and quantum mechanics in the same course, it was probably in the form of two unrelated chapters in different parts of the syllabus in something like an integrated science ...

The idea of resurrecting the dead once belonged to gothic fiction, but modern science has edged closer to the same questions that inspired Frankenstein. Advances in organ regeneration, electrical ...

Mr. Schulman is the editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society. He has written extensively about science reform. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new director of the National Institutes of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world.

The longest woolly rhino horn ever found is providing new insights into the lives of these now extinct animals. The horn — found preserved in Siberian permafrost — stretched over 1.6 meters, nearly ...

In this image, red is the color of absorption. The red cells in this image are enterocytes, which line the walls of your small intestine and are responsible for absorbing nutrients from the food you ...