Credit: Dr. Hiroki Hasegawa Background to the Research The generation of fusion energy utilizes the fusion reaction that occurs inside ...

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) launched a new tool to help biomedical and life science investigators ...

Credit: Hugh Safford/USDA Forest Service A study spanning 10 national forests and 14 burned areas in California found that conifer ...

Before modern medical lab techniques became available, doctors diagnosed some diseases by smelling a patient's breath. Scientists have been working ...

A class of flame retardants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been phased out of production in the U.S. ...

The compound view shows a new ALMA Band 5 view of the colliding galaxy system Arp 220 (in red) on ...

Credit: Brian Jones/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Humans and other animals carry rogue sequences of DNA in their genomes called ...

Credit: Stobart et al Nature Communications (2016). Crafting a vaccine against RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) has been a minefield for ...

Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Among the most important molecules in the living world are sugars or ...

Molecules 10,000 times narrower than the width of a human hair could hold the key to making possible wooden skyscrapers ...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 20, 2016) - As the valves in a heart stretch with each beat, ...

Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Traditional computer memory, known as DRAM, uses electric fields to store information. In DRAM, the ...

Professor Frédéric Veyrier's most recent research, in collaboration with the team of Professor Hilde De Reuse at the Institut Pasteur, ...

In the Arctic, the Inuits have adapted to severe cold and a predominantly seafood diet. After the first population genomic ...

Credit: Benjamin Wetzel Researchers from INRS and the FEMTO-ST Institute in France have used a novel measurement technique that magnifies ...

In its search for extrasolar planets, the Kepler space telescope looks for stars whose light flux periodically dims, signaling the ...

Credit: Yun Hang Hu, Michigan Tech A little sodium goes a long way. At least that's the case in carbon-based ...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Dec. 20, 2016 - UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have invented a transistor-like threshold sensor ...

Baltimore, MD - Dec. 20, 2016 - In a first-in-children randomized clinical study, medical researchers at the University of Maryland ...

Scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center ...