Credit: Purdue University/Erin Easterling WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Recent studies show that 40 percent of Americans over the age of 85 have Alzheimer's disease, and...
College Park, Md. -- The success of electric car batteries depends on the miles that can be driven on a single charge, but the current...
Credit: (courtesy Dr. King) ROCKVILLE, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Mary-Claire King, PhD, as the 2018 recipient of the...
Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute have discovered that CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing can cause greater genetic damage in cells than was previously thought. These results...
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have solved a key puzzle in quantum physics that could help to make data transfer totally secure. The team...
Credit: Eric Garcetti Preventing reservoir evaporation during droughts with floating balls may not help conserve water overall, due to the water needed to make the...
Credit: © Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn Particulate matter deposits on leaves increase plant transpiration and the risk of plants suffering from drought. Particulate matter could...
Credit: Tom Stubbs and Dan Driscoll Fossils come in many shapes and sizes, ranging from isolated fragments of bones and teeth to complete skeletons. Palaeontologists...
Credit: Swadhin C. Jana Our body is made up of millions of cells that communicate with each other and with the environment using tiny antennae,...
Credit: Jason DeBoer, Illinois Natural History Survey URBANA, Ill. - The bluegill on your dinner plate might have been more social than the rest of...
(Linköping University) Twenty-five researchers from seven research institutes have put their heads together to draw up rules for designing high-efficiency organic solar cells. The research...
Scientists have long known that RNA encodes instructions to make proteins. The building blocks that comprise RNA--A, U, C, and Gs--form a blueprint for the...
Credit: Scott Saleska COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new understanding of the microbes and viruses in the thawing permafrost in Sweden may help scientists better predict...
Since its inception in 2016, Brazilian startup Treevia, based in Sao Jose dos Campos, São Paulo State, has been developing a remote forest monitoring system...
Credit: Joan De La Malla NEW YORK (JULY 16, 2018) - Indigenous Peoples have ownership, use and management rights over at least a quarter of...
