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Credit: Ajayan Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON – (Aug. 16, 2017) – Rice University materials scientists have created a light foam from two-dimensional sheets of hexagonal-boron...

Credit: Evan Buechley HawkWatch International and the University of Utah are partnering on two studies in the Horn of Africa: a new effort studying raptor...

Credit: MPI of Immunobiology a. Epigenetics/ F. Zenk We are more than the sum of our genes. Epigenetic mechanisms modulated by environmental cues such as...

Credit: Gavin Svenson, Ph.D. Three seemingly unrelated praying mantis groups inhabiting Cuba and the rest of the Greater Antilles actually share an ancient African ancestor...

Credit: Megumi Akai-Kasaya WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 25, 2017 — In conventional electronics, a great deal of effort is devoted to eliminating stochastic resonance (SR) —...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 27, 2017–Researchers are beginning to gain a clearer understanding of how the immune system responds,...

Credit: University of Guelph Omega-3s from fish pack a stronger punch than flaxseed and other oils when it comes to cancer prevention, according to a...

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 15, 2017) – A group of steroid hormones could provide new insight into the bone...

Credit: Andrew S. Flies Morris Animal Foundation-funded researcher Dr. Deanne Whitworth, and her colleagues at the University of Queensland, have taken the first step toward...

Credit: Oncotarget, doi:10.18632/oncotarget.24228 CLEMSON, South Carolina – When Leland Dunwoodie, an undergraduate researcher in biochemistry, approached his PI about wanting to start research on "s..

Credit: (UConn Office of the Vice President for Research Photo) Connecticut residents are all too familiar with Lyme disease, but the precise mechanisms of how...

Credit: Queen's University Belfast A researcher at Queen's University Belfast has discovered a way to convert dirty aluminium foil into a biofuel catalyst, which could...

Credit: Kanazawa University The first-generation biofuel, industrialized, ethanol, is produced from foodstuffs like maize, and thus poses great concern about a possible future shortage ..

Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign There is remarkable biodiversity in all but the most extreme ecosystems on Earth. When many species are competing for...

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Using genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes to reduce or prevent the spread of infectious diseases is a new but rapidly expanding field of...