Tag: University of Chicago

Our sun’s beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about 50 million years before the Earth formed. Since the...

Chemists and engineers today are very interested in a kind of nanotechnology enabled by tiny islands of nanoparticles called “colloidal nanocrystals.” They can be made...

Genetic variants associated with enjoying the effects of d-amphetamine—the active ingredient in Adderall—are also associated with a reduced risk for developing schizophrenia and attention...

Here’s another reason you might want to make sure you sleep well. Researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Louisville have...

A husband’s agreeable personality and good health appear crucial to preventing conflict among older couples who have been together a long time, according to...

Once again, computer screensavers have flexed their muscles and solved a great mystery of biology. For the first time, [email protected], the Stanford-run program that taps the...

Female swallowtail butterflies in the genus Papilio are known for sexual dimorphism, traits that make males and females different, and for Batesian mimicry, the...

Though present in more than 6,000 living species of fish, the adipose fin, a small appendage that lies between the dorsal fin and tail,...

Scientists may be close to unraveling one of the longest-standing questions in evolutionary biology — whether limbs, particularly hind limbs, evolved before or after...