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(Umea University) The views among physicians and the general public when it comes to deciding whether to withhold or withdraw...

Most people are concerned about the prospect of their social media accounts being hacked, but a new study finds that...

The same mechanical principles underlie whether the DVD player skips and whether the most advanced surgical robot will rotate its...

Credit: Wolfgang Däuble / CeMM (Vienna, 19 January 2017) Genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 "gene scissors" is a powerful tool for...

Credit: University of Nottingham Engineers at The University of Nottingham are developing lightweight automotive components using new additive manufacturing processes...

Credit: MIPT's Press Office Researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed a theory that gives the...

New research from a beach-roaming biomechanics engineer paints a surprisingly industrious picture of limpets -- the marine snails that are...

Credit: Andrew Grieshop Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have found that while...

Credit: photo/©: Georg Schneider, JGU As self-evident as it is that matter exists, its origins are just as mysterious. According...

The membrane of a cell is composed of a lipid bilayer. Lipids are good chemical and electrical insulators, which are...

Water purification processes usually make use of robust membranes for filtering off contaminants while working at high pressures. Can materials...

There is value in starting off patients with high blood pressure on an all-in-one pill. In the long run, it...

Credit: Scienta Omicron Research by scientists at Swansea University is helping to meet the challenge of incorporating nanoscale structures into...

Credit: Claude Lavoie A new study published today in Botany demonstrates how herbaria can be valuable resources for studying the...

Some of the most important crops risk substantial damage from rising temperatures. To better assess how climate change caused by...

Researchers have found a way to trigger the innate, but previously hidden, ability of graphene to act as a superconductor...

Credit: Nano Lab, Tufts University School of Engineering MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (January 19, 2017) - Tufts University engineers have invented a...

Credit: Dana-Farber/Boston Children's BOSTON (January 19, 2017) -- Precision medicine - in which diagnosis and treatments are keyed to the...

With just over three months to go until The International Liver Congress™ (ILC) 2017, we invite you to attend the...

Credit: © D. Malmquist/VIMS. Those concerned with water quality are familiar with nitrogen as a major pollutant whose excess runoff...