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Credit: Dave O'Gorman Several hundred miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, a small tectonic plate called the Juan de Fuca is slowly sliding under the...

Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Researchers have developed a new device to map the brain during surgery and distinguish between healthy...

Credit: © Nature Chemical Biology / Stefan Kubicek (Vienna, May 22, 2017) Two drugs taken together can sometimes lead to outcomes that largely deviate from...

Malignant melanoma is one of the most common and dangerous types of cancer. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) investigated how and why brown pigmented...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Most women diagnosed with ovarian cancer undergo surgery to remove as many of the tumors as possible. However, it is usually impossible...

(Boston) -- Avrum Spira, MD, MSc, professor of medicine, pathology and bioinformatics at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), is the inaugural recipient of the...

Credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first printed battery that is flexible, stretchable...

Oyster farmers are set to benefit from a new genetic tool that will help to prevent disease outbreaks and improve yields. The technology will enable...

In 2012, scientists at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) launched the Ocean Health Index (OHI), a scientific framework to...

In the new cryodepository, first it is planned to place duplicates of the most valuable samples from the collection of the Institute of Plant Physiology...

Credit: García Molinos et al., Scientific Reports, May 2, 2017 Ocean currents affect how climate change impacts movements of species to cooler regions. A new...

Credit: TU Wien A light wave sent through empty space always oscillates in the same direction. However, certain materials can be used to rotate the...

Credit: Springer Like the ants he studies, author Ernesto Altshuler has thrived by flirting with chaos. With the demise of the Soviet block, Cuba's economy...

Credit: Fengxian Fan, Eric Parteli, Thorsten Pöschel Dipping a tube into a container filled with water will make the water rise in the tube. This...

An international research collaboration studying the genetics of Zika virus in Brazil and beyond has provided a new understanding of the disease and its rapid...