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Scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a rapid and highly sensitive fingerprint test that can take just seconds...

A new test that combines the effects of more than two dozen genetic variants, most associated by themselves with only...

Credit: Creative Commons by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Licensed with CC BY NC 2.0 An international collaboration involving the...

(Technische Universität Dresden) Dr. Nikolay Ninov, group leader at the DFG research center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Cluster of Excellence...

Credit: NOAA/NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. Fires that span across the Northern Territory and Western Australia...

Credit: Dr. Nonappa and Ville Liljeström It has always been the Holy Grail of materials science to describe and control...

Pearls are among nature's most beautiful creations, and have been treasured for countless centuries. Beneath one's iridescent surface lies a...

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina today opened its 2017 Annual Assembly in Halle (Saale), with this year's theme...

The ability to successfully navigate in the environment is essential both for animals searching for food or escaping predators, as...

Credit: University of Portsmouth The University of Portsmouth is helping to tackle air pollution and its harmful effects in Sub-Saharan...

Scientists confirm that the age and content of an old sack is in accordance with a medieval myth about Saint...

Credit: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit Professor Tsumoru Shintake at the Okinawa...

Washington, DC - Sept. 22, 2017 - Antibiotic use on people or pets, and use of biocidal cleaning products such...

Credit: Burrus/NIST BOULDER, Colo.--Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a potential new tactic for...

Credit: Martin Kapun The genome of a typical organism consists of many genes that are stringed like beads. This alignment...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sept. 22, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)...

Recognizing the critical role that private capital flows will play in moving society toward a more sustainable future, Yale University...

QUT researchers have produced Australia's first lithium-ion battery after establishing the country's only facility capable of such manufacturing. Key facts:...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 22, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...

Outdoor air pollution has long been linked to major health conditions such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, asthma and chronic...