The SARS-CoV-2 genome consists of a single RNA strand that is 30,000 letters long. Sequencing is a technique that provides a read-out of the...

  A NASA satellite image of Iceland, superimposed with a heatmap of movement data of individuals during the 2009 H1N1 epidemic, drawn from c...

A mountain gorilla mother and her baby in the wild in Rwanda. Great apes "are important not just to ecosystems but to giving us insight...

Understanding the dynamics of granular materials — such as sand flowing through an hourglass or salt pouring through a shaker — is a major u...

Electron micrographs give a detailed view of the new nanomaterial. Arrows indicate layers that form in the tubes, leading to the hypothesis ...