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Scientists have developed a battery that uses seawater as the catholyte. Click for a high-resolution image.... view more Credit: American...

Credit: Illustration by Eric Taylor, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Scientists have called superoxide out as the main culprit behind coral...

Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Soil, an important part of the carbon cycle, might compound the world's carbon...

In a new study, researchers have modified a rabies virus, so that it has a protein from the MERS virus;...

Hoboken, NJ - December 7, 2016 - John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), the European Society of...

Credit: Kroon-Batenburg et al. The increasingly popular subject of raw diffraction data deposition is examined in a Topical Review in...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two genetic mutations known to play a role in many solid cancers might also help explain why...

Credit: Peter Evers FRANKFURT. Helium atoms are loners. Only if they are cooled down to an extremely low temperature do...

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 7, 2016 -- Water is vital to life on Earth and its importance simply can't be overstated...

Scientists have found a way to detect earlier if a deadly cancer, Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), is recurring in patients,...

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Credit: Karl Johnson PITTSBURGH (December 7, 2016) ... Research at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering focused on...

As the year comes to an end, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society,...

Ayahuasca is a beverage that has been used for centuries by Native South-Americans. Studies suggest that it exhibits anxiolytic and...

Credit: University of Warwick Around 50% of us are susceptible to believing we've experienced fictitious events, University of Warwick research...

Credit: Troy Ghashghaei New research from North Carolina State University shows that neurons generated at different life stages in mice...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- An enzyme that converts the dietary carotenoid beta carotene into vitamin...

In 2014, the number of deaths from opioid overdoses in the U.S. jumped to its highest level on record. The...

Credit: S. Dorbolo/University of Liege WASHINGTON, D.C., December 7, 2016 -- Resembling the Leidenfrost effect seen in rapidly boiling water...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 7th December, 2016 - Pain relief and other forms of supportive care for cancer patients are insufficient, researchers report...