An attacking snake causes the eggs of most red-eyed tree frogs to hatch immediately, sending young tadpoles that were developing on leaves in the...

Eye tremor may be an early indication Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease, which means there is progressive breakdown of neurons. Traditional medications that...

Ernie Lewis likes to play the cloud game, looking for familiar shapes in our puffy white neighbors overhead. While he’s contemplating whether that one...

You would think that all of us, if given a choice, would want to live longer. However, in a recent informal survey involving 30,000...

Plants build a biological fortress around one of their most important jewels: sugars. They fortify a wall with a substance called lignin, whose name...

While Heather Lynch has seen close-up some of the incredible tales of survival, loyalty and determination that documentaries like “March of the Penguins” highlight,...

Burns present an especially challenging problem for doctors and medical researchers. While lacerations and abrasions harm skin directly affected by the injury, a burn...

Paul O’Connor at Brookhaven National Laboratory is part of a team building a combination telescope and camera whose “wow” factor is off the charts....

When studies have unexpected results, I feel the need to investigate further. In life we run into paradoxes all the time. A paradox is defined...