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Research at the University of York has revealed that genes are controlled by 'nano footballs' - structures that look like...

Calculations have shown that 10 per cent of all plastic produced around the world ultimately ends up in the oceans....

Credit: Matt Hagen/UW Clean Energy Institute The University of Washington is home to a new national center of excellence for...

Analyses of temperate rain forests located on the central coast of British Columbia, Canada suggest that for centuries, humans have...

Credit: Credit: NASA via Flickr Researchers have found a way to chart changes in the speed of deep-ocean currents using...

Credit: Sudhakar KeerthiPriyaa A synthetic DNA-targeting molecule could pave the way for tissue regeneration. Stem cells can be triggered to...

Scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick used a genetic engineering technique for the first time to create brain cells from the...

Credit: Maria Mota lab, iMM Lisboa Researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa have found that the host's susceptibility...

Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new gel patch prototype that could...

Credit: Jay Yocis/UC Creative Services Ticks are nasty little survivors, outlasting even dinosaurs as they resist drought, tolerate cold and...

Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum In order to get rid of unpleasant competitors, some bacteria use a sophisticated weapon -...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University More than 5 million Americans today are affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD). If nothing is done...

It has become an almost essential element of academic life, from college lecture halls to elementary classrooms: the group assignment....

Credit: Megumi Akai-Kasaya WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 25, 2017 -- In conventional electronics, a great deal of effort is devoted to...

(Boston) - Ischemia is a serious medical condition in which the flow of blood and delivery of oxygen to tissues...

Credit: UFZ / André Künzelmann Internationally subsidised agricultural insurance is intended to protect farmers in developing countries from the effects...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2017 -- Everyone seems to swear by a different pancake recipe. How...

Credit: Metabarcoding and Metagenomics and Pensoft A new innovative open-access academic journal Metabarcoding and Metagenomics (MBMG) is launched to welcome...

(BOSTON) -- Researchers are constantly expanding their arsenal of methods to decipher the spatial organization of biological structures. Using microscopes,...

Credit: ESRI at Swansea University A new superhydrophilic filter has proven able to remove greater than 90 per cent of...