Science

Platelets kept in cold storage for as long as 21 days controlled bleeding no worse than platelets stored at room temperature for up to seven days, according to a trial of 1,000 cardiac surgery…

A study published Aug. 19 in Science Advances places more than 5,800 animal genomes on a single map and reports that chromosomes rearrange along a limited set of routes that cannot be retraced,…

Some 5,500 years ago, on the banks of a river that feeds Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia, small bands of hunter-gatherers began burying their dead in unusual numbers, and the dead were unusually…

The first clue was almost nothing. In 2008, a photograph taken on the east bank of the Lomami River in the Democratic Republic of Congo showed a black monkey with a strange, bright detail: orange…

Every asteroid carries a birth certificate, if you know where to look for it. It is written not in shape or size but in isotopes, the slightly different weights of the same chemical element, mixed in…

Inside the nucleus of a healthy human cell sit a handful of droplets so small they were only named this century. They have no membrane. They condense out of the surrounding soup the way oil beads in…

Two hundred and fifty-two million years ago, the oceans nearly emptied. The Permian-Triassic extinction (geologists call it the Great Dying, and the name is not hyperbole) erased something like 96…

The Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval Aug. 19 to Genglycos, a one-time gene therapy for glycogen storage disease type Ia, and said it is the first approved treatment for the…

A method published Aug. 20 in Nature Genetics returns a probability for each of four categories at once: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, or none of the three. Genetic risk scores…

Nothing in the apparatus actually spins. That is the first surprise, and the one that makes the rest of the story hang together. Sitting on a bench at the City University of New York's Advanced…

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Pasatru, an antibody that blocks a protein called Activin A, for adults with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a disorder in which bone forms inside…

Grasses carry two separate chemical routes for making starch, and their closest non-grass relatives carry only one, according to a University of Wisconsin–Madison release describing a paper published…