Month: December 2016

Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - A centuries-old herbal medicine, discovered by Chinese scientists and used to effectively ...

Early development after birth can have profound effects on survival and reproduction. Now new research suggests that concentrations of a ...

A tiny seismic event that occurred in North Korea on 12 May 2010 appears to have bene an earthquake rather ...

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) Fungal infections are a serious health risk. They can be harmful especially to patients whose ...

Scientists at the University of York have found that oil palm plantations, which produce oil for commercial use in cooking, ...

Most women are not bothered much about the fact that they might at times share public bathrooms designated for females ...

Credit: Photo: Pete Morris Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden have put ...

Credit: Sachin Gadani | University of Virginia School of Medicine UVA researchers discover an influential type of immune cell in ...

Credit: Heike Cords/HZB Fuel cells convert chemical energy of fuels such as hydrogen into electricity. The technology is highly efficient ...

Credit: MIPT Press Office Physicists from MIPT and the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences ...

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Dec. 19, 2016) - Scientists are using "gene scissors" to cut off the code of ...

Credit: Jennifer Pistevos, University of Adelaide Wild barramundi populations are likely to be at risk under ocean acidification, a new ...

Credit: Dannhauser et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2016 -- Single-stranded, noncoding micro-ribonucleic acids (microRNAs), consisting of 18-23 nucleotides, play ...

Credit: Cheryl Rosenfeld COLUMBIA, Mo. - Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widely used industrial chemical found in many household items, ...

Credit: Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA-- Yvonne J. Paterson, PhD, a professor of Microbiology in the Perelman ...

As part of its Patron Saint's Day celebrations, KU Leuven (Belgium) will award a joint honorary doctorate to immunologists James ...

Credit: Shadmehr Demehri, MD, PhD, MGH Center for Cancer Immunology and Cutaneous Biology Research Center A combination of two FDA-approved ...

A team of international scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered the earliest direct evidence of humans processing ...

The raggedness of the ocean floors could be the key to triggering some of the Earth's most powerful earthquakes, scientists ...

Credit: A new study led by a research scientist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) ...