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Credit: Purdue University/Aritra Bose In recent years, the market for direct-to-consumer genetic testing has exploded. The number of people who...

Matchmaking encryption can provide intelligence agencies and media organizations completely secure and private communications When spies meet, they use secret...

Recipients pursue varied fields from augmented reality to history of MarsCredit: University of Houston Six current and former University of...

Widely reported case experiment is unlikely to provide intended protection, with unknown risks The first reported instance of germline gene...

Credit: Xiangxi Wang Structure-based drug design revealed that a compound previously investigated for the treatment of head-and-neck cancer could function...

The public announcement last fall from China regarding gene editing on human embryos, conducted without the benefit of scientific review...

Credit: Virginia Tech The modern-age adage "work smarter, not harder" stresses the importance of not only working to produce, but...

Credit: NASA/NRL Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed Tropical Cyclone Fani appeared more organized than the previous day. On...

Vessels will be designed for rapid rescue of sailors aboard disabled submarinesCredit: Phoenix International Holdings SAN ANTONIO -- April 30,...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Blockchains have been hailed as fair and open, constructed so a single user can't falsify or alter...

Credit: NASA/W. Hrybyk NASA research scientist Tom Hanisco set out to build an instrument capable of measuring a short-lived chemical...

How do smartphones affect our relationships? How do filmmakers adapt movies to take advantage of our capacity for vision, hearing...

A Leuven research team led by Prof. Bart De Strooper (VIB-KU Leuven, UK DRI) studied how specialized brain cells called...

Credit: WSU Pullman, Wash. - Washington State University researchers found a troubling number of errors in publicly available genomic data...

AI-based competence assistance systems are to help achieve phases of concentrated work and to actively unfold personal and professional competencesCredit:...

Citizen science data offers novel comparison of flora and fauna between metropolitan areasCredit: © 2018 Amy Patten SAN FRANCISCO (April...

Grant to UC Riverside could help put tiny tomato plants on the International Space StationCredit: Martha Orozco-Cárdenas/UCR Tiny tomato plants...

Credit: Samuel F. Way What matters more to a scientist's career success: where they currently work, or where they got...

Desire for diversity means these parents settle for less affluent neighborhoods Mixed-race couples are a burgeoning population in the United...

Credit: Jonathan Tran/University of Washington Everywhere you look, people are looking at screens. In the decade since smartphones have become...