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Credit: Caltech In a new study that one scientist called jaw-dropping, a joint UCLA/Caltech team has shown that it is...

DARIEN, IL - A new study conducted among more than 177,000 students suggests that insufficient sleep duration is associated with...

Credit: UoL Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered a new and important function of a toxin produced by...

Credit: Adriane Esquivel Muelbert, University of Leeds A team of more than 100 scientists has assessed the impact of global...

Credit: Phil Jones, AU Campus Photographer An enzyme known to help our liver get rid of ammonia also appears to...

Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Technological advances have enabled scientists to obtain massive amounts of data on different information-carrying...

Ann Arbor, November 8, 2018 - Approximately 20 percent of homicides of children 2 to 14 years of age in...

Credit: Eric Sucar/University of Pennsylvania In the dramatically changing conditions of ancient Earth, organisms had to evolve new strategies to...

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides or TMDCs--materials composed of metal nanolayers sandwiched between two other layers of chalcogens-- have become extremely...

A pioneering technique designed to spot differences between immune cells in tumours could speed the development of cancer treatments, research...

NEW YORK, NY and SANTA BARBARA, CA - The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the Glenn Foundation for...

NEW YORK, NY and SANTA BARBARA, CA -- The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the Glenn Foundation for...

Credit: University of Houston With the click of a button, Vivien Coulson-Thomas removes the cadaver's skin. Another click and she...

NEW YORK, NY--The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), with support from the Irene Diamond Fund, is pleased to announce...

Credit: Michal Vadai When Michal Vadai's experiment worked for the first time, she jumped out of her seat. Vadai, a...

Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory photo. LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Nov. 7, 2018--Laser-based 'optical tweezers' could levitate uranium and plutonium particles,...

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - With a $1.08 million contract award from the United States Advanced Battery Consortium...

Credit: University of Waterloo Researchers at the University of Waterloo have taken a huge step towards making smart devices that...

Credit: Mattosaurus via wikimeida, public domain Understanding how and when cells divide is important to figuring out everything from how...

Credit: The Centenary Institute A study led by researchers at the Centenary Institute has identified a drug currently used to...