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Credit: AG Böttcher The World Health Organization (WHO) considers Pseudomonas aeruginosa a germ requiring urgent action to prevent and control its spread. The bacteria can...

Credit: Geoffrey M. Attardo, Ph.D., University of California, Davis/Journal of Insect Science Annapolis, MD; November 7, 2018--In the global effort to prevent diseases transmitted by...

Financial institutions, such as banks and pension funds, have a key role to play in efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. And it is not...

Credit: Valentina Ruiz Leotaud. Labour abuses, including modern slavery, are 'hidden subsidies' that allow distant-water fishing fleets to remain profitable and promote overfishing, new re..

Credit: Thomas L.P. Couvreur Common sight along road sides in south Cameroon and western Gabon, and growing in hard-to-be-missed dense colonies, it remains a mystery...

Why is the endangered western North Atlantic right whale population growing far more slowly than those of southern right whales, a sister species also recovering...

The Bertarelli Foundation has awarded collaborative research grants to four teams of scientists representing Harvard Medical School, its affiliated teaching hospitals, and the Institute of...

Credit: Anne Lykke/DTU The antiSMASH tool can help researchers find bacterial genes responsible for the biosynthesis of interesting metabolites such as new antibiotics, pesticides, and...

Credit: Sjoerd van Wijk An effective regulation of programmed cell death is crucial for the correct development of embryos, a working innate immune system, and...

Credit: OIST Viscoelastic fluids are everywhere, whether racing through your veins or through 1,300 kilometers of pipe in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Unlike Newtonian fluids, such...

A team of researchers have developed an artificial tactile sensor that mimics the ability of human skin to detect surface information, such as shapes, patterns...

The increase of thermoelectric power factor by introducing nanowires. Embedded-ZnO nanowire structure exhibited a thermoelectric power factor 3 times larger than that of ZnO film...

No matter if it's grandma's cookies or commercially produced rolls, pastry lovers expect their baked goods to have a certain "golden brown" allure -- but...

Credit: American Chemical Society In the quest to replace fossil fuels, scientists are always on the lookout for alternative, environmentally friendly sources of energy. But...

Credit: Sudeep Joshi, Stevens Institute of Technology In their latest feat of engineering, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have taken an ordinary white button...