Month: March 2018

One of the recurring media narratives about the nature of science today is that it is "broken" or "in crisis." ...

Many women in science are raising concerns over the fact that parents with young children are often excluded from fully ...

LA JOLLA, CA - March 12, 2018 - Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have designed a new molecule-building ...

Credit: John Poulsen, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Poaching and habitat loss have reduced forest elephant populations in Central Africa ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - A major study led by Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine researchers reveals for the first time ...

Credit: © D. Loftis/VIMS. Researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science are launching new web-based "report cards" ...

Better known as glass, silica is a versatile material used in myriad industrial processes, from catalysis and filtration, to chromatography ...

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), as the greatest source of natural fibre, is one of the most valuable crops grown worldwide. ...

Credit: Laura Bolt TORONTO, ON (Canada) - Cattle ranching, agriculture and other human activities are breaking up Costa Rican forests ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Researchers may be able to stop the replication of Ebola virus by mutating its most important ...

Credit: Xin Zou Creating enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system may be as simple as putting ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - A tree will drop hundreds of seedlings over the course of its lifetime, but only a small ...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Infants who consumed soy-based formula as newborns had differences in some reproductive-system cells and tissues, ...

How a losing a skin protein can lead to cancer Dystrophic epodermolysis bullosa, or DEB, is a rare, inherited skin ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - March 12, 2018 - One major problem in treating cancer is identifying the location of small tumors ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review ...

Social connectivity and meaningful social engagement must be promoted as integral components of healthy aging, according to a new collection ...

Credit: Saint Louis University / Ellen Hutti. ST. LOUIS -- In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, Saint Louis ...

Credit: Georgios Pavlopoulos and Nikos Kyrpides, JGI/Berkeley Lab Did you know that the tools used for analyzing relationships between social ...

Researchers have analyzed genetic data from half a million subjects in a search to identify the underlying causes of stroke, ...