It doesn't dig underground and it's not above Cindy Crawford's lip. But the mole -- a fundamental unit in chemistry -- is the guest of honor today at 5,000 schools across the country. A mole is the ...

October 23rd marks Mole Day in the United States. Chemistry classes and chemistry enthusiasts celebrate this unofficial holiday with activities, cakes and jokes galore. Here’s what you need to know. A ...

PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — When the clock hit 6:02 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, it was officially Mole Day - a worldwide holiday celebrating a unit of measurement called a mole. Chemistry students ...

Naked mole rats, small rodents native to East Africa, have captured the attention of scientists due to their extraordinary longevity and resistance to age-related diseases. These unique creatures are ...

Naked mole rats, the desert-dwelling animals that look like the lovechild of an uncooked sausage and a scrotum, don’t feel certain kinds of pain — and now, scientists may have a better idea why. The ...

The protective substance, called hyaluronan (HA), is part of the extracellular matrix in many animals, but naked mole-rats produce large amounts of an HA variant that has a high molecular weight.

Is the key to living over 200 hidden in the icy sea of the Arctic? The bowhead whale, an 80,000-kilogram insulating blubber ...

Using comparative molecular biology with human cGAS – which actually inhibits DNA repair – the scientists found that the naked mole-rat's enzyme has four key changes that facilitate the important work ...

It’s October 23, or Mole Day for chemistry enthusiasts. From 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m. students and teachers celebrate their love of chemistry with Avogadro’s number — 6.02 x 10^23, a unit of measurement ...