Credit: Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/University of Alberta/A.Bahramian et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss. Astronomers have found evidence of a star that whips around...

The hidden toll that subsidies for electricity, fossil fuels, and transport have on social welfare, economic growth and technological innovation...

Credit: Aleksej Zelezniak/Francis Crick Institute A set of biochemical processes crucial to cellular life on Earth could have originated in...

Credit: Columbia University The appearance of supermassive black holes at the dawn of the universe has puzzled astronomers since their...

Credit: Manners Group, University of Bristol Scientists, led by Professor Ian Manners from the University of Bristol's School of Chemistry,...

Credit: Wong et al., 2017 Researchers have mapped how the malaria drug mefloquine works, providing a route to make effective...

Credit: Darcy Bradley Swimming with metaphorical sharks is one thing, but actually getting into the water with the razor-toothed ocean...

SPOKANE, Wash.--A Washington State University researcher has found a way that prostate cancer cells hijack the body's bone maintenance, facilitating...

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have discovered that a greater number of breast cancers are...

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have mapped the conformational changes that occur in a protein "notorious" for pumping chemotherapeutic...

There are already one billion tobacco smokers worldwide, and this number is likely to rise further with Asian tobacco companies...

New light-scattering tool offers minimally-invasive, highly accurate means of identifying pre-cancerous and cancerous pancreatic lesions. Currently, no diagnostic technique exists...

A team of New York University chemists has created self-assembled, three-dimensional DNA crystals that can bind a separate, dye-bearing strand--a...

ANN ARBOR--Extremely short, configurable "femtosecond" pulses of light demonstrated by an international team could lead to future computers that run...

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Researchers have for the first time mapped how one of the...

Credit: Christa Neu, Lehigh University Communications + Public Affairs It is easy to speculate why fish might swim in schools...

Credit: Xavier Lucas, Alessio Ciulli, University of Dundee Scientists at the University of Dundee have reported a major breakthrough in...

Credit: Courtesy of La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology LA JOLLA, CA -- Although Zika and dengue are considered...

Credit: Masayuki Hashisaka Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation have developed a "spin-resolved...

Credit: Jean-Daniel Stanley and Pablo L. Clemente and GSA Today. Boulder, Colorado, USA: A multi-year study of Egypt's Nile Delta...