Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study reveals that African-Americans have measurable differences in the ...

Credit: Jennifer LaVista, USGS Public domain Arid and semiarid ecosystems are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation ...

(Chalmers University of Technology) More efficient sensors are needed to be able to detect environmental pollution. Researchers at Chalmers University ...

An international team of astronomers has observed evidence of a star that whips around a black hole at a rate ...

Credit: Erika Nesvold Washington, DC -- When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring ...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Tom Bridgman Earth's radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were ...

Credit: Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn What happens when the lights are turned out in the enormous clean room that currently ...

Credit: University of Stirling The operation of surveillance cameras is the subject of a new UK strategy, shaped by a ...

Credit: Frank Ceballos | University of Kansas LAWRENCE - Common sense might dictate that for an object to move from ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- New research offers insights into how crystal dislocations -- a common type of defect in materials -- ...

Credit: Robert Campbell Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a new method of controlling biology at the cellular ...

Credit: Iris Choi, Oxford University WASHINGTON -- With the growing popularity of mobile phone apps to pay for purchases at ...

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Hunter; C. Brogan, B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); GLIMPSE, NASA/JPL-Caltech A massive protostar, deeply nestled in its dust-filled ...

Polar cod fulfil a key role in the Arctic food web, as they are a major source of food for ...

The participation of civil society organisations in the international REDD+ programmes seeking to reduce deforestation, forest degradation and CO² emissions ...

Credit: Journal of Economic Entomology Annapolis, MD; March 8, 2017 -- Not all bed bugs are created equal, and some ...

Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have entered new territory with regard to the pulsing of electron beams. Their method ...

The first of a new class of medication that delivers a combination of drugs by nanoparticle may keep melanoma from ...

Credit: Springer International Publishing AG Øyvind Hammer was first seduced by the spiral's charms 20 years ago while studying fossils ...

Credit: Oliver Dietze They are able to predict how much the on-board battery will in fact be utilized in the ...