COLUMBUS, Ohio – Until recently, Orthacanthus gracilis could have been considered the “John Smith” of prehistoric shark names, given how ...

How does our intestine, which can be at least 15 feet long, fit properly inside our bodies? As our digestive ...

Niigata, Japan – Dr. Yamamoto et al. found the several uremic toxins as one of causes of itching in hemodialysis ...

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A female White-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) found dead in 2021 in Bosque dos Jequitibás Park in the center of Campinas, ...

In the past decade, humanity has seen the birth and expansion of a commercial space sector with new, private players, ...

A new paper led by Harvard researchers has zeroed in on biomarkers of aging using omic data from population-based studies. ...

Understanding how the poor deal with the effects of the economic crisis into which Brazil plunged in 2014 was the ...

Spatial navigation and spatial memory play a central role in our lives. Without these abilities, we would hardly be able ...

West Virginia University engineers have secured $3 million in U.S. Department of Energy funding to research a new chemical reactor ...

Self-monitoring of physical activity with an accelerometer and feedback is an effective tool to improve physical activity in elderly people ...

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the complex math essential ...

A dipole magnetic field, created by a ring current, is the most fundamental type of magnetic field that is found ...

LOGAN, UTAH, USA -- What's black and white and red all over? It might be a velvet ant. But discerning ...

You may not realise it, but “nudge” has been used by businesses, policy-makers and governments for years to prod the ...

Future alternatives to fossil fuel-based plastics could be hiding in kitchen cabinets and waste bins. Researchers are looking to foodstuffs ...

Scientists have observed so-called 'roaming' chemical reactions, those that at certain points move away from the lowest minimum energy 'path of ...

RICHLAND, Wash.—In an experiment akin to stop-motion photography, scientists have isolated the energetic movement of an electron while “freezing” the ...

Researchers can accurately track where typhoid fever cases are highest by monitoring environmental samples for viruses called bacteriophages that specifically ...