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Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Cancer needs energy to drive its out-of-control growth. It gets energy in the form of glucose, in fact consuming...

Credit: Christiaan Kooyman, Wikimedia A debate over mummified birds brought to France after Napoleon's conquest of Egypt played a central role in delaying acceptance of...

Credit: TIPC Chinese researchers have discovered and characterized a sophisticated mechanism in bird feathers that enhances tear resistance, overturning a centuries-old explanation of how bird...

Credit: Creative Commons A University of Queensland researcher has uncovered how a French scientist and ibis researcher conducted the first test of evolution more than...

Credit: RUB, Kramer Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Tübingen have gained new insights into the structure of the killer protein Bax. The...

Nanoparticles derived from green mango peel could be the key to remediating oil sludge in contaminated soil according to new research from the University of...

Credit: Courtesy David Hik A study by more than 100 global researchers is linking the effects of climate change to new and taller plant species...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Friday, September 28th, 2018, Rockville, MD. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and disability in the world. On the eve...

25 September 2018/Kiel/Valetta. Scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the University of Malta (UM) will be joining forces to carry out...

Credit: Photo: M. Forwick Scientists from Norway and the UK have shown that, 20.000 years ago, Arctic sea ice in the winter covered more than...

Credit: Aleksandr Mishin Researchers developed fluorescent proteins that can be controlled by orange and green light. These proteins will help to study processes in living...

Credit: tomhouslay.com In gardens, parks and woods across the UK, the Sexton burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides quietly buries dead mice and other small vertebrates to...

Credit: Susanne Ruemmele Green algae that evolved to tolerate hostile and fluctuating conditions in salt marshes and inland salt flats are expected to survive climate...

Credit: MARUM - Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen Large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane are stored in the seabed. Fortunately, only...

A new book edited by researchers at IIASA, the London School of Economics (LSE) and Deltares looks at the research, political debate and policy options...