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Credit: Micro and Nanotechnology Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The latest versions of most smartphones contain at least two...

Nature and society are full of so-called real-world complex systems, such as protein interactions. Theoretical models, called complex networks, describe...

University of Colorado Boulder researchers and collaborating institutions have been awarded $2.9 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to...

Credit: ECDC According to test results from the annual European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (Euro-GASP), resistance levels to the main...

Catalysts are agents that initiate chemical reactions, speed them up or significantly increase the yield of the desired product. New...

Credit: Courtesy of Rafe Brown LAWRENCE -- Evolutionary biologists long have supposed that when species colonize new geographic regions they...

Credit: © Photo: Raphael Reher/Daniela Wenzel/Uni Bonn The coralberry could offer new hope for asthmatics: researchers at the University of...

Credit: University of British Columbia Two birds that look the same, but have songs so different they can't recognize each...

Chinese researchers recently announced a landmark advancement: They used a satellite orbiting Earth to beam pairs of quantum-entangled photons to...

Electronic dance music (EDM) parties have historically been high-risk scenes for use of a variety of psychoactive substances. Studies over...

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a way of overcoming one of the major stumbling blocks that has prevented...

Furfural is a promising candidate in the quest for alternative biofuels. The combustion industries are very interested in what could...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 13, 2017 -- Converting fibrous plant waste, like corn stalks and wood shavings, into fermentable simple sugars...

Credit: Department of Chemistry, HKUST o-Succinylbenzoyl-CoA (OSB-CoA) synthetase (MenE) is an essential enzyme in bacterial vitamin K biosynthesis and an...

Credit: F. Tomasinelli Researchers from the Graphene Flagship have demonstrated that graphene-based materials can be used to boost the properties...

Washington, DC -- The Endocrine Society today issued a Clinical Practice Guideline on the treatment for gender-dysphoric/gender-incongruent people, commonly referred...

Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) has awarded a $25,000 seed grant to...

New immune therapies are considered a promising lead for treating recurring acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Antibodies are able to eliminate...

(BOSTON)--Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a molecule called miR-124 in non-small cell lung cancer cells...

Boston, MA-- The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) hormone therapy trials tested the most common formulations of hormone therapy - estrogen...