The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $26 million to establish a new Gen-4 Engineering Research Center (ERC) named Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub...
A significant milestone in horticultural genomics has been reached with the successful decoding of the tetraploid Chinese cherry genome. This study provides essential insights into...
JOHNSTOWN, PA – While distinct languages and dialects are common to human societies, most people are unaware that other species may similarly have culturally significant...
Homicide is a major reason behind lower and more variable reduction in life expectancy for Black rather than White men in recent years, according to...
Excess carbon dioxide emitted by human activities – such as fossil fuel burning, land-use changes and deforestation – is absorbed by the world’s oceans. While...
Per a new study, as of April 2021, US Congress members whose ancestors enslaved 16 or more people had a net worth that was five...
Worcester, Mass. (Aug. 21, 2024) – Focusing on certain species of sharks, rays, and sea turtles, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is leading a potentially groundbreaking...
An enzyme called PGK1 has an unexpectedly critical role in the production of chemical energy in brain cells, according to a preclinical study led by...
Imagine owning a camera so powerful it can take freeze-frame photographs of a moving electron – an object traveling so fast it could circle the...
Researchers from Tel Aviv University found that there may be a cost to the zero-price effect: statistically identical homes that were published in free service...
UPTON, N.Y. — Scientists studying the tracks of particles streaming from six billion collisions of atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) — an “atom...
A groundbreaking study conducted across 30 field sites in the southwest UK has revealed the importance of incorporating varied habitats into the landscape at large....
Physicists from the STAR Collaboration have observed a new antimatter hypernucleus, antihyperhydrogen-4, for the first time. This is the heaviest antimatter hypernucleus discovered in experiments...
As industrialized food markets harm the environment, sustainable food systems emerge as an effective solution. It includes reducing the distance between where the food is...
Mitochondria, the so-called “powerhouse of the cell,” depend on a newly discovered recycling mechanism identified by scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). Mitochondria,...
