Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) Astrocytes--the star-shaped cells of our brain--are very busy. Their job description includes...

A time-honoured theory into why conditions on Earth have remained stable enough for life to evolve over billions of years...

Ribosomes are among the most important molecular machines within the cell that hardly changed in the course of evolution. Their...

Credit: Giuliano Maselli Locosselli In an article published in the journal Environmental Pollution, Brazilian researchers showed that tree species Tipuana...

PULLMAN - Washington State University researchers have found that plastic products meant to replace the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA,...

Credit: Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Consumers need to stop demanding shark fin soup and other products in the absence of robust...

Credit: Keegan Houser The Rockefeller University has announced that Jennifer Doudna will receive this year's Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a...

Credit: Photo by T. Salvador, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ­- The most recent solar radiation data have been converted into...

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have answered questions about the incidence and timing of rare but sometimes fatal reactions to the...

Credit: © Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu SAN FRANCISCO (Sept 13, 2018) - The Exploratorium announced this week the launch of its new...

CHAPEL HILL - Researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center estimate that screening for and treating...

Credit: Sharon Parmet. A three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will enable researchers at the University...

Credit: Kevin Robertson TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A new study from Florida State University researchers indicates that common satellite imaging technologies...

Credit: UT Arlington Living organisms expand and contract soft tissues to achieve complex, 3-D movements and functions, but replicating those...

Credit: USDA Riverside, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) --The earth beneath our feet isn't usually the first thing that comes to mind when...

Credit: @HKU Year- 6 medical student Mr Lai Hei-ming from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University...

Credit: UB-CIBERES A scientific study, conducted with animal models, states that sleep apnea can favour lung cancer growth in young...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The seventh annual Golden Goose Award ceremony will recognize three teams of scientists whose silly-sounding research has...

The Genome 10K G10K) announces the official launch of a new project, the international Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), and its...

The world needs to keep global temperatures in check by meeting the goals set out in the Paris Agreement, or...