Credit: Kiyomi Taguchi/University of Washington Dyes are widely used in industries such as textiles, cosmetics, food processing, papermaking and plastics. Globally, we produce about 700,000...
Researchers at McGill University have discovered a mechanism by which helical biomineral structures can be synthesized to spiral clockwise or counterclockwise using only either the...
Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., August 1, 2018 -- In a recently published study in the journal Nature Microbiology, researchers at Los...
Credit: UIC/Chris Bevel A $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help University of Illinois at Chicago researchers study how herpesviruses, and...
Scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have engineered a system allowing microscopic monitoring and imaging of cancer that has spread to...
Credit: Mika Nakhleh The National Science Foundation has awarded two grants for a combined $1.5 million to Rice University computational biologist Luay Nakhleh to expand...
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 1, 2018) - Muslim and Protestant scientists are more likely than other U.S. scientists to experience religious discrimination,...
Credit: EMBL/Hildebrand/Krolik in collaboration with Campbell Medical Illustration Soil is full of life, essential for nutrient cycling and carbon storage. To better understand how it...
Credit: Clare Kiernan/UBC Cooking oil and similar waste can clog pipes, harm fish and even grow into solid deposits like the "fatbergs" that recently blocked...
Credit: David Tickler. Industrial fishing fleets have doubled the distance they travel to fishing grounds since 1950 but catch only a third of what they...
Credit: Songlin Fei. Many studies on the impacts of global temperature rise have suggested that the range of trees will migrate poleward and upward. However,...
About 50 percent of people who reach the age of 85 will develop Alzheimer's disease. Most will die within about five years of exhibiting the...
Credit: Jula Zimmermann Leipzig, Halle. A new study shows that, in addition to the diversity of tree species, the variety of animal and fungus species...
Credit: HZB Many important processes in nature depend on catalysts, which are atoms or molecules that facilitate a reaction, but emerge from it themselves unchanged....
Credit: Photo by Anne Scott EAST LANSING, Mich. - A team of scientists has identified a single molecule that could be a key in controlling...
