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Credit: William Foster/The University of Texas at Austin. Researchers studying marine fossil beds in Italy have found that the world's...

Loading video... Credit: University of British Columbia Picture a tablet that you can fold into the size of a phone...

Loading video... Credit: Georgia Tech / Ben Brumfield An old adage holds that the flap of a butterfly's wing in...

Credit: Laurens Howle, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers have created a new model for predicting decompression sickness after deep-sea...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel...March 15, 2017 -- Despite YouTube's attempts to safeguard user anonymity, intelligence agencies, hackers and online advertising companies can...

Lyncean Technologies, Inc., manufacturer of the Lyncean Compact Light Source (CLS), today announced the signing of AXT Pty Ltd as...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- An international team of researchers discovered that inorganic chemicals can self-organize into complex structures that mimic primitive...

Cancer is one of the hardest medical conditions to overcome, and for those who do so, the battle often does...

Credit: Reprinted with permission of Biophysical Journal. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- At every moment inside the human body, a carefully choreographed...

Credit: Laura Marek Beauty and utility in one bright package, sunflowers are one of just a few commercial crops with...

Credit: Dr. Jamie Stevens The evolution of land animals has been shaped by barriers such as oceans and mountains which...

Credit: Hokkaido University Transposable elements (TEs), also known as mobile genes, are considered parasites of host genomes because they act...

Credit: Markku Varjosalo Coordinated activities of protein kinases and protein phosphatases ensure phosphorylation homeostasis and amplitude of signaling response, and...

In small amounts, vanilla flavoring enhances the taste of our baked goods, desserts and ice cream. But making it synthetically,...

Public health officials are increasingly concerned over methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The bacteria have developed resistance to a number of...

In the 1960s, the introduction of fabric softeners transformed rough, scratchy clothes into softer, more comfortable garments. But recently, the...

On March 6, President Donald Trump signed a second executive order to suspend immigration from six predominately Muslim countries, this...

Credit: Frank Ceballos | University of Kansas LAWRENCE - Common sense might dictate that for an object to move from...

Credit: University of Houston Zhifeng Ren, a University of Houston physicist and a principal investigator with the Texas Center for...

Credit: Saarland University These tests produce millions of valid program inputs within minutes. In this manner the researchers can automatically...