The acidification of the oceans caused by human activity is already altering the production of marine plankton shells in the Mediterranean Sea. This is the...
According to a new study conducted at the University of Helsinki, the area of northern peatlands has grown in recent centuries. Previously, it was thought...
AIP and the National Society of Black Physicists congratulate Charles D. Brown II as the winner of the 2023 Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence....
Low levels of Vitamin D have been shown to be associated with a higher risk of having a cardiac event, like a heart attack or...
Short-term increases in air pollution can cause problems for a lot of people, but especially to those with diagnosed or undiagnosed heart disease. But it’s...
Familial hypercholesteremia (FH) is an inherited condition that affects about 1 in 250 people, and often shows no signs until they have a heart attack....
New research from Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City finds that genetic screening is effective in identifying patients who have a heart condition known as...
There is no longer any question of how to prevent high-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires that have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S., according to...
Student engineers from the University of Bath are on top of the world after winning an international competition to design an artificial heart.Credit: University of...
Tsukuba, Japan—Plant species are distributed in their preferred climatic zones, and plants growing at the edge of their natural distribution range often exhibit poor growth...
This study is led by Prof. Lan Zhu (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital), Prof. Tao Tan (State Key Laboratory of...
Physical properties (stability, solubility, etc.), critical to the performance of pharmaceutical and functional materials, are known to strongly depend on the solid-state form and environmental...
“The world isn’t doing terribly well in averting global ecological collapse,” says Dr Florian Rabitz, a researcher at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, the...
Production of biological substances for medicine using genetically engineered yeast cells shows new promising results in basic research from an international team of researchers. In...
Actuators, which convert electrical energy into motion or force, play a pivotal role in daily life, albeit often going unnoticed. Soft material-based actuators, in particular,...
