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For several years, scientists have been working toward "breathalyzers" that can diagnose various diseases without painful pinpricks, needles or other...

(Boston)-- A new technique has been identified that quickly and cheaply recognizes illegal designer drugs that normally evade detection. The...

We frequently encounter polyurethane (PU) foams in everyday life: they are in the insulation in house façades and refrigerators, in...

Credit: Photo provided by POSTECH Superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted global attention due to their water-repellant characteristics and myriad number and...

Aquaculture experts from the University of Stirling and the Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA) in Catalonia,...

A new model developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) shows how an electricity system mainly based on solar and...

Up to now, the speed record for horizontal flight was held by birds from the swift family: the common swift,...

Credit: Courtesy of Astrid Rollenhagen and Joachim Lübke; for details see Rollenhagen et al., J. Neurosci. 27: 10434-10444 (2007) Synapses...

Credit: Richard Spontak A multi-institutional research team has developed a new electroactive polymer material that can change shape and size...

Credit: Dirk Notz For each tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) that any person on our planet emits, three square metres...

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for $3.6 million over five years will support formation of MARISA (Mid-Atlantic Regional...

Credit: Shigeki Moriguchi Researchers at Tohoku University have found a promising treatment for Alzheimer's disease, by noticing a similarity in...

Credit: The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Australian emergency medicine researchers have successfully trialled an alternative deep sedative for patients...

Boston, MA - Women have a two-fold higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than men, yet strikingly little is known...

Synapses, the place where brain cells contact one another, play a pivotal role in the transmission of toxic proteins. This...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) A key genetic switch in the liver regulates glucose metabolism...

It should be obvious that those with greater self-control live a healthier lifestyle. After all, it takes self-control to exercise...

Credit: American Chemical Society Hydroelectricity is a renewable energy, and the facilities that produce it give off less greenhouse gases...

Artificial "cells" could someday zoom around in the body and deliver medicines to specific locations, act as in-tissue diagnosticians and...

Credit: Venu Raman An experimental drug that targets abnormally high levels of a protein linked to cancer growth appears to...