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Credit: From Chernova et al Cell Reports (2017). Prions have a notorious reputation. They cause neurodegenerative disease, namely mad cow/Creutzfeld-Jakob...

Credit: Raag Airan Biomedical engineers at Johns Hopkins report they have worked out a noninvasive way to release and deliver...

A fatty molecule thought to be unique to flowering plants has turned up in bacteria skimmed from the Adriatic Sea....

Credit: Photo by Jen Guyton, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Be it the Mima mounds of Washington state or...

Credit: Occupational Knowledge International SAN FRANCISCO - Aluminum cookware made from scrap metal in countries around the world poses a...

Credit: UNIST Earlier today, UNIST has signed a multi-year strategic partnership agreement with seven research institutes to accelerate the realization...

San Antonio, Texas - Over 128 million daily commuters in the U.S. and 75% report they drive alone. From improving...

Credit: University of Huddersfield SCIENTISTS at the University of Huddersfield have developed a new chemical reaction that is catalysed using...

Credit: World Scientific, 2017 Particle Physics usually only hits the headlines when a new particle is discovered or some similar...

UC San Francisco scientists have formed an innovative research alliance with three global pharmaceutical companies to improve patients' responses to...

Credit: Jakob Kibsgaard, DTU Physics The world population is growing, as is energy demand, and we have long been able...

As Carlos García-Meca of the UPV's Centre for Nanophotonic Technology explained, diffusive environments are those in which the light is...

Credit: Yiping Shu (NAOC) and Gabi Perez (SMM/IAC). An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...

Credit: Photo: Lukas Fasbender The Venus flytrap captures insects for more than just nutritional purposes: A research team lead by...

Credit: Khairunnisa A. Ghaffar et al , Bentham Science Publishers Group A Streptococcus (GAS), or Streptococcus pyogenes is an exclusivel...

Credit: VTT VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed food ingredients from mealworms and crickets which, due to their...

Credit: Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Shuto Researchers from Kumamoto University, Japan have succeeded in producing a mouse model that faithfully reproduces...

Credit: Chuanlong Lin and Guoyin Shen, Carnegie Institution Phase transitions surround us--for instance, liquid water changes to ice when frozen...

A new analysis reveals that for most women, the risk of dying from cervical cancer is higher than previously thought....

E-cigarettes - thought by some to be responsible for a decline in youth cigarette smoking - are actually attracting a...