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Credit: PTB Friction: what you want from car brakes, otherwise rather a nuisance. In any case, it is useful to...

The Permanent Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area of the Deutsche...

Stress is a major risk factor for a range of psychopathologies. However, stress does not affect everyone equally: in the...

Credit: French Embassy, Washington DC PITTSBURGH, July 13, 2017 - The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has entered into...

Chicago, IL, July 13, 2017 - Children conceived using donor sperm have similar health and well-being to the general population,...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 13, 2017- Depending on what generation you belong to, the term "improvisational dance" may conjure up...

Credit: King's College London Researchers from King's College London have discovered a molecular mechanism that enables neuronal connections to change...

WASHINGTON, D.C. July 13, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...

Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - Dry scaly skin, blistering, rashes. Many people will experience some kind of skin problem...

The first ever Baseline Distribution of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern has been published by the JRC. The 37...

The malaria parasite's success is owed to the stripping down of its genome to the bare essential genes, scientists at...

Credit: JM Richner et al./Cell WHAT: Two experimental vaccines can restrict Zika virus transmission from pregnant mice to their fetuses...

Credit: Afonso RF, Balardin JB, Lazar S, Sato JR, Igarashi N, Santaella DF, Lacerda SS, Amaro E Jr. and Kozasa...

Credit: Public domain As the notion of nuclear hostilities leaps from its old, Cold War perch into modern debate, new...

Credit: Diversity.AI The Biogerontology Research Foundation releases the results of their first pilot study, conducted as part of their ongoing...

Credit: UEx Radioactive contamination is the unwanted presence of radioactive substances in the environment. Our environment is contaminated by naturally-occurring...

GALVESTON, Texas - Immunizing female mice with a Zika vaccine can protect their developing fetus from infection and birth defects...

The laboratory of Lauren Bakaletz, PhD, director, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and vice president of basic sciences, The Research Institute...

Credit: UNSW The prestigious Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica for 2017 has been awarded to (University of...

(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Two major investments in research partnerships that will strengthen the links between the UK's...