Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years. Vice President JD Vance is “a conspiracy theorist.” Russell Vought, the director of the Office of ...

The wartime president has met the enemy, and they are us. Here, he holds a artist rendering of the new White House ballroom in the Oval Office on October 22, 2025 Credit: Associated Press Last week, ...

Tropism (trow-piz-em) n. in botany. An involuntary orientation by an organism or one of its parts that involves turning or curving by movement or by differential growth and is a positive or negative ...

As you travel in rural Indiana this time of year, you may happen upon a field of sunflowers. It’s so beautiful that drivers will occasionally pull off on the side of the road and take pictures.

Avista will leverage Forge’s FUEL™ platform to manufacture AAV for AVST-101, Avista’s lead gene therapy to treat patients with X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS) PITTSBURGH & COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE ...

ABSTRACT: Papillomaviruses have the ability to induce infected squamous epithelial cells to form tumors, some of which can progress to malignancies. They are circular double-stranded DNA viruses with ...

Plant phototropism—directional growth in response to light—serves as a key adaptive mechanism, optimizing photosynthesis and development. Central to this process is phototropin 1 (phot1), a primary ...

An army of treelike creatures called Ents marches to war in the second The Lord of the Rings movie, The Two Towers, walking for miles through dark forests. Once they arrive at the fortress of the evil ...

In his new book, What Is It Like to Be an Addict? Owen Flanagan writes from his perspective as a philosopher who is also a recovering addict. Courting some controversy, Flanagan argues that addicts ...

Plants are able to respond to their environment and changes in conditions. In the phototropism phenomenon, for example, plant parts will turn towards the sun. And gravitropism refers to the ability of ...

Breakthrough directed evolution system boosts virus-like particles for safer, more efficient gene editing, offering a powerful tool for next-generation therapeutic innovations. Study: Directed ...

TEL AVIV — We often think of plants as stationary, rooted organisms. But plants are constantly in motion, responding to light, gravity, and their environment. In fact, a new study is revealing how ...