If you have a cat, you’ve probably endured your fair share of unwanted furniture scratching. Maybe you’ve purchased scratching posts, rearranged your furniture, or played with your cats before bed, to ...

Why do some cats and dogs practically melt with joy when they get a good head scratch? The answer is different for Fluffy than it is for Fido, although they do share a few reasons for why they sink ...

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In a potential watershed for synthetic biology, researchers report in the journal Science that they’ve built the first-ever complex synthetic chromosome in a lab. That could enable us to reengineer ...

Using the labor of dozens of undergraduate students, scientists have built a customized yeast chromosome from scratch. It's a milestone in the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology, where ...