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ANN ARBOR--When a material is made, you typically cannot change whether that material is hard or soft. But a group...

Olfactory neurons in the nasal cavity are the primary source of our sense of smell. Unlike many types of neurons,...

HERCULES, Calif. -- January 23, 2017 -- Global leaders in cancer research and clinical care will discuss how they combine...

Drugs that contain one or more fluorine atoms tend to be more stable, more powerful, and easier for the body...

Credit: Fatima Ebrahimi Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has published...

Washington, DC - Jan. 23, 2017 - The taste of wine arises from a symphony of compounds that are assembled...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- A University of California, Riverside graduate student has discovered several news species of...

Credit: Lancaster University The popular Pattern Lock system used to secure millions of Android phones can be cracked within just...

Where would we be without meiosis and recombination? For a start, none of us sexually reproducing organisms would be here,...

Unbalanced signaling by two molecules that regulate breathing leads to sleep apnea in mice and rats, researchers report in the...

Credit: Credit: DESY/Eberhard Reimann A Swedish-German team of researchers has cleared up a key process for the artificial production of...

Online media use such as social networking and gaming could be strongly influenced by our genes, according to a new...

There are about 400,000 species of plants in the world. Humans use approximately 10-15% of them to cover our basic...

Credit: Don Hamerman/Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Scientists assumed leaves at the top of a plant would be...

Credit: Daniel Miller URBANA, Ill. - Trees may be easy to spot on the plains of Africa but they are...

Credit: Z. Fayer. Non-indigenous species (NIS) are harming indigenous species and habitats in the Mediterranean Sea, impairing potentially exploitable marine...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Insects, like mammals including humans, sort chemicals by taste into a few categories...

Credit: Lancaster University The popular Pattern Lock system used to secure millions of Android phones can be cracked within just...

Credit: Photo courtesy of UNC-NC State Joint Biomedical Engineering Program. After surgery to remove a cancerous tumor -- even if...

Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan.23, 2017 -- Simulation is a valuable tool to improve the...