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Credit: Sonia Fernandez In the ancient Japanese art of origami, paper must be folded precisely and following a specific order...

Credit: Fran Webber/NIST Providing wireless communications in a factory, plant or other industrial environment these days means more than just...

Credit: Courtesy of Shouling Xu and Zhiyong Wang. Stanford, CA -- New work from Carnegie's Shouling Xu and Zhiyong Wang...

A naturally occurring hormone that plays an important role in fetal development may be the basis for a new type...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A team of Florida State University researchers has discovered that a common household pest can tell us...

Researchers have uncovered 30 genes that could, one day, serve as therapeutic targets to reverse Rett syndrome, a rare neurological...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger, producer NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger, producer An international science team says NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed...

Scientists have long known of the potential of microalgae to aid in the production of biofuels and other valuable chemicals....

MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- What Silicon Valley is to technology, Kansas State University is to biodefense. When former Senate Majority Leader...

January 30, 2017-- An international consortium of academic research institutions have been awarded a $21 million grant from the National...

New research suggests that the capacity of the terrestrial biosphere to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) may have been underestimated in...

Credit: Ginger Rowsey JACKSON, Tenn. - Shawn Butler, a doctoral candidate in the University of Tennessee's College of Agricultural Sciences...

Homes with solar panels do not require on-site storage to reap the biggest economic and environmental benefits of solar energy,...

Loading video... Credit: Rajat Mittal, Jung Hee Seo and Thura Harfi The heart is a wonder of design - a...

Credit: Wilson Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 30, 2017) - Rice University researchers have synthesized a new and greatly...

Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health Osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease, is a genetic disorder that...

Credit: Joshua McMichael The body of knowledge on cancer genomics is massive and ever-expanding. But this wealth of potentially critical...

Some cancer cells have a trick up their sleeve to avoid cell death: boosting maintenance of telomeres, the protective "end...

Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff OHSU scientists have uncovered a method for quickly and efficiently mapping the genome of single cells within...