(Umea University) Scientists from Umeå University have now discovered and characterised the structure and function of a so far unknown...

Air quality is one of the major hot topics, receiving considerable attention from the public. Aside from emission sources, the...

Credit: PIK/Luderer&Wodinski Coal power versus wind and solar energy - debates about the Paris climate targets often centre around electricity...

Credit: Emily Mitchell Some of the earliest complex organisms on Earth - possibly some of the earliest animals to exist...

This could lead to cheaper and more environmentally friendly biofuel production and more efficient plastic recycling. Bioprocessing, which uses living...

Credit: Matouš Glanc Auxin is a hormone that is essential for the development of plants as it controls a wide...

Limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius will require not only reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, but also active removal...

Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. - After five years and nearly 15,000 tagged butterflies, scientists now have proof that Monarch butterflies...

The skeleton formed by a coral plays a key role in the storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Previous studies have...

Credit: ZHUANG Taotao Liquid multi-carbon alcohols such as ethanol and n-propanol are desired as renewable transportation fuels. They offer high...

Credit: Jose Fernandez-Triana A total of 17 new genera and 29 new species of parasitoid wasps were identified following a...

The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) will become a global hub of...

Public health strategies are urgently required to tackle low intakes of vitamin D in the UK South-Asian population, finds a...

Credit: UC Davis, Davis, Calif. PHILADELPHIA - Simon R. Cherry, PhD, Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis, has...

Credit: Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO Richard L. Wahl, MD, FACNM, FACR, has been named this...

Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences A research team based at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., has published...

During the past week, the news has brought us difficult images and sounds: Migrant and refugee children huddled in steel...

PULLMAN, WA - Washington State University researchers have developed a new approach for studying Cryptosporidium, a waterborne gastrointestinal parasite now...

A new cord blood processing technology, Toticyte, developed by the UK's leading blood cord bank, Cells4life, has been launched to...

Credit: Children's Hospital Colorado A major study has found that medicines used to treat diabetes in adults are not effective...