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Credit: University of Córdoba The basis of the construction industry clashes head-on with environmental sustainability. Extracting raw materials and turning them into building materials has...

Climate change leads to longer growing seasons in the Arctic. A new study shows that predators like wolf spiders respond to the changing conditions and...

Credit: ETH Zurich / Nolan Lassaline The importance of light-based technologies for our society was demonstrated once more in recent weeks. Thanks to the internet,...

Credit: (c) Monash BDI Monash University researchers have discovered that the devastating bacterial superbug Clostridioides difficile hijacks the human wound healing system in order to...

Scientists identify a novel method to create efficient alloy-based solar panels free of toxic metalsCredit: DGIST Commercialized thin-film solar panels on the market consist of...

Colourful bugs look very different as young and adults, but why?Credit: Iliana Medina New research has revealed for the first time that shield bugs use...

May the forces be within your cellsCredit: Kyoto University/Makito Miyazaki Japan -- Symmetry and asymmetry are fundamental properties of nature. Seen from above, butterflies have...

Scientists identify an important protein that increases "bacterial virulence," when mutated, changing harmless bacteria to harmful onesCredit: CHIKARA KAITO As far as humans are concerned,...

Credit: M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine In recent years, the number of women who entered U.S. medical school surpassed the number of men. But gender...

Researchers profile the body's immune response in critically ill patientsCredit: Lawson Health Research Institute LONDON, ONTARIO - A team from Lawson Health Research Institute and...

Small ethnic group is cooperative and generous, contrary to 1972 book portrayalCredit: Cathryn Townsend The Ik, a small ethnic group in Uganda, are not incredibly...

Published on ACS Nano, journal of the American Chemical Society, the study opens important perspectives for treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease,...

Credit: Yanyu Zhang Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a hitherto unknown function of blood platelets in cancer. In mouse models, these platelets have proved...

$40.5 million NIH-funded project aims to pinpoint cells at the root of the progressive brain disease and home in on new therapeutic targetsCredit: UW Medicine...

Credit: Courtesy of Adrian Mellage Under changing, increasingly dynamic climatic conditions, temperate soils are forecast to experience a high degree of variability in moisture conditions...