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Credit: Credit: Nitesh Mittal, KTH Stockholm At DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III, a team led by Swedish researchers has produced the strongest bio-material that...

For decades, researchers have thought that access to food determined the brood size of birds. Now, biologists at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a...

Credit: PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. -- In a first-of-its-kind demonstration, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have vitrified low-activity waste from unde..

The plants which produce one of the most popular drinks in the world, coffee, are targeted by a microscopic worm, but scientists are fighting back....

Credit: Shingirai S. Nangombe Africa is arguably one of the regions most vulnerable to adverse impacts of climate change. With average temperatures in Africa rising...

Credit: Bielefeld University Penicillin-based antibiotics contain a five-membered hydrocarbon cycle, additionally incorporating a sulfur and a nitrogen atom. Nadine Zumbrägel, doctoral student at th..

Credit: © RIKEN National Science Institute Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science have discovered a mutation that can protect against Alzheimer's disease in...

Credit: Maria Breygina Plant physiologists from MSU proved for the first time that dangerous reactive oxygen species that are often considered as by-products of energy...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (May 16, 2018)--With obesity now a global epidemic, there is increased focus on risk factors that contribute to weight gain, especially in postmenopausal...

Heidelberg, 16 May 2018 - The recipients of the EMBO Gold Medal 2018 are Czech microbiologist Marek Basler and German biochemist Melina Schuh. Young independent...

Credit: Schmidt et al., 2018 Researchers in Germany have discovered that colon cancers are often resistant to existing drug treatments because they are composed of...

Credit: Christopher Dutton (Millbrook, NY) Ecologists have long known that agricultural and sewage pollution can cause low oxygen conditions and fish kills in rivers. A...

Credit: Anthony Weate/QUT Marketing & Communication Advances in medicine mean health care professionals can prolong life, yet some treatments have a low chance of providing...

ASCO Perspective "We know that sleep is critical to the health of patients with cancer, from active cancer care through survivorship. This research reinforces the...

ASCO Perspective "This study demonstrates the power of leveraging smart technology to improve the care of people with cancer. These tools helped simplify care for...