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FRESNO, CA - Consuming grapes twice a day for six months protected against significant metabolic decline in Alzheimer-related areas of the brain in a study...

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Feb. 3, 2016 -- Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have identified a genomic mutation that causes physical abnormalities and...

A new model exploring how evolutionary dynamics work in natural selection has found that phenotypic diversity, or an organism's observable traits, co-evolves with contingent cooperation...

Credit: Griffith University Griffith's Professor Geoff Pryde, who led the project, says that such processes could be simulated using a "quantum hard drive", much smaller...

An engineer constructing wells in oil fields and an animal foraging for scarce food in the desert often face a similar dilemma: How long should...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt The Calabash Nebula, pictured here -- which has the technical name OH 231.8+04.2 -- is a spectacular example...

Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., Feb. 3, 2017 -- The University of California, Irvine has received $2.2 million from the state that will...

Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at the Rockefeller University/eLife With the first detailed analysis of a cellular component from a close relative of the pathogen...

University of Chicago cancer specialist Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD, has been awarded an Outstanding Investigator Award by the National Cancer Institute, a branch of the...

Credit: Ross Milton Nearly a century ago, German chemist Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a process to generate ammonia from hydrogen...

Credit: Press photo Scientists of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) developed turbo expander electric generator operating on high-pressure natural gas. Natural gas...

Credit: G.L. Kohuth, Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - A Michigan State University researcher has developed a faster way to detect the bacteria causing...

Credit: Tom Grunert/Vetmeduni Vienna Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus ) can colonize the upper respiratory tract of around one quarter of the human population. As an...

Belgian scientists have discovered the key role of protein Taok3 in the development of type B immune cells known as MZB cells, which are responsible...

Credit: NaMLab gGmbH A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed)...