The citation index, first seeded as an embryo by the information scientist Eugene Garfield in the 1950s, was delivered in the 1960s as a fully formed child, the Science Citation Index. Its twin ...

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ETH researchers have developed a new gene switch that can be activated using a commercially available nitroglycerine patch applied to the skin. One day, researchers want to use switches of this kind ...

NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

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A tour of the archives beneath Schenectady's Museum of Innovation and Science is a journey through America's history with ...

I have learned one thing for sure: how we approach studying can make a huge difference, especially in subjects like science.

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...

Markita Landry is the first to admit that the two applications her research addresses – imaging brain chemistry and delivering genetic material into plants – are rather divergent.

Long before the women who helped win the space race were depicted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” women were making contributions to science that far outpaced the credit they were given for their ...

Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color, and skin tone, but they don't tell the entire ...