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Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Peipei Zhang Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered the way toxic proteins linked to the...

Credit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services When it comes to biometric sensors, human skin isn't an ally. It's an obstacle. The University of Cincinnati is...

Credit: Courtesy Greg Funston Following a discovery in 2015 in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park, Greg Funston puzzled for two years over a mysterious bone trying...

Credit: Junfeng Feng Electric fields can be used to guide neural stem cells transplanted into the brain towards a specific location. The research, published July...

Credit: Jaren Wilkey/BYU Photo Brigham Young University researchers have developed new glass technology that could add a new level of flexibility to the microscopic world...

Credit: UBC Public Affairs Industrial fishing fleets dump nearly 10 million tonnes of good fish back into the ocean every year, according to new research....

Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo by Kathleen Phillips) COLLEGE STATION — The most popular flowering shrub in the U.S. has a new ally...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The discovery that the brain can generate new cells – about 700 new neurons each day – has triggered investigations...

Credit: J. D'Elia The existing genetic diversity of California Condors, all of which are descended from just 14 individuals, is strikingly low. But were condors...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON – (April 17, 2017) – Microscopic probes developed at Rice University have simplified the process of measuring electrical activity in...

Credit: Matthias Stöck Until now, the fauna of the Himalayas was considered to be an "immigration fauna", with species that have immigrated primarily from neighbouring...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University What could cancer cells and drug-resistant bacteria possibly have in common with Stone Age settlers of the Americas? They're all migratory,...

Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory PULLMAN, Wash.–Jean-Sabin McEwen knocks out a web search for "North Dakota," "night sky" and "flaring," and quickly finds a picture from...

Credit: Martha Nelson-Flower An African desert-dwelling male bird favours his biological sons and alienates his stepsons, suggests research published today in Biological Letters. "Nepotism has...

Exercise, particularly high-impact activity, builds stronger bones in children, even for those who carry genetic variants that predispose them to bone weakness, according to new...