A new study showing dryness of the atmosphere affects U.S. grassland productivity more than rainfall could have important implications for predicting how plants will respond...
Loading video... Credit: NYU Langone Medical Center A drug already used to slow tumor growth may also prevent infertility caused by standard chemotherapies, according to...
Credit: Nick Dentamaro / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- If someone asks you to hand them a wrench from a table full of different sized...
Credit: Mohammad Khasawneh BINGHAMTON, NY- Five times a day, roughly 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, bow, kneel, and place their foreheads to the ground in the...
Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (March 6, 2017) -- Studies have shown that hazardous waste sites have the potential to adversely affect human health...
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University and biomedical researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Womens Research Institute have established a framework..
Credit: Caltech Researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have--in just two years--nearly doubled the number of materials known to have potential...
Credit: UIC/ALEXANDER YARIN The bubbles that form on a heated surface create a tiny recoil when they leave it, like the kick from a gun...
Credit: Julius Lab, UCSF Sharks, rays and skates can hunt for prey hidden in the sandy sea floor by "listening" for faint traces of bioelectricity...
PULLMAN, Wash. - A meeting in a forest between a biologist and a mathematician could lead to thicker, faster growing trees. "Mathematicians like translating biological...
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Blanche formed on March 5 near Australia's Top End, and made landfall the next day...
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The scaffolding that holds the large-scale structure of the universe constitutes galaxies, dark matter and gas (from which stars...
Credit: Kathy F. Atkinson/University of Delaware Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are the power behind most modern portable electronics, including cell phones, tablets, laptops, fitness trackers,..
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered how a protein called α2δ4 establishes proper...
Cage-like compounds called clathrates could be used for harvesting waste heat and turning it into electricity. UC Davis chemists just discovered a whole new class...
