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An engineer constructing wells in oil fields and an animal foraging for scarce food in the desert often face a...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt The Calabash Nebula, pictured here -- which has the technical name OH 231.8+04.2...

Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., Feb. 3, 2017 -- The University of California, Irvine has received $2.2 million...

Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at the Rockefeller University/eLife With the first detailed analysis of a cellular component from a...

University of Chicago cancer specialist Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD, has been awarded an Outstanding Investigator Award by the National Cancer...

Credit: Ross Milton Nearly a century ago, German chemist Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a process...

Credit: Press photo Scientists of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) developed turbo expander electric generator operating on...

Credit: G.L. Kohuth, Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - A Michigan State University researcher has developed a faster way...

Credit: Tom Grunert/Vetmeduni Vienna Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus ) can colonize the upper respiratory tract of around one quarter of...

Belgian scientists have discovered the key role of protein Taok3 in the development of type B immune cells known as...

Credit: NaMLab gGmbH A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center...

New York, NY, February 3, 2017 -- The Vilcek Foundation is proud to announce that the 2017 Vilcek Prize for...

Credit: Tom Grunert/Vetmeduni Vienna Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus ) can colonize the upper respiratory tract of around one quarter of...

Credit: Photo: Eikholt/NKDB It is like being in a dirty glass jar, unable to reach out and with acquaintances passing...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced...

Credit: Griffith University The Griffith University study, conducted in collaboration with national and international experts in reef and chemical ecology,...

After the 2003 completion of the Human Genome Project - which sequenced all 3 billion "letters," or base pairs, in...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Summary: Many recent advances in artificial intelligence and aging biomarkers that transpired since 2013 are converging Gachon...

Antibiotics can still kill drug-resistant bacteria if they 'push' hard enough into bacterial cells, finds new UCL-led research funded by...

Advances in cancer care have led to a rise in the number of people surviving the illness. Cancer survival rates...