The apparent divergence between Washington and Abuja’s accounts of the reported airstrikes on terrorist targets in Nigeria is ...

Viruses typically aren’t considered ‘alive,’ as many core biological functions are outsourced to their potential hosts. But a newly discovered organism appears to straddle the line between virus and ...

While boundaries are self-focused and enforced through personal action, rules are the opposite. Specifically, they are externally focused and enforced through pressure, persuasion, or punishment. This ...

Does quantum mechanics really reflect nature in its truest form, or is it just our imprecise way of describing the weird properties of the very small? A famous test that can help answer this question ...

Gene variants in red blood cell function may have doomed the hybrid babies of Neanderthals and modern humans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Stanley is an associate professor and Richard and Rhoda Goldman distinguished chair in the biological sciences as well as faculty director for the Alliance for Global Health and Science at the ...

Introduction: Research regarding the relationship between cognitive performance and sport performance in young talented football players has mainly been investigated in male athletes. Only few studies ...

Ascorbic acid and citric acid can be found in a variety of fruits and vegetables, especially citrus. They are often confused with one another because of their similar names and origins. However, while ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Monday to ban all federal funding of risky gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries without proper oversight of the ...

Activation functions play a critical role in AI inference, helping to ferret out nonlinear behaviors in AI models. This makes them an integral part of any neural network, but nonlinear functions can ...