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WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of $1.85 million...

Credit: Jason Ching/University of Washington One of Alaska's most abundant freshwater fish species is altering its breeding patterns in response to climate change. This could...

Credit: Erik Sturkell A new research article, with lead authors from the University of Gothenburg, gives indications of the best places in Iceland to build...

The ability to dispose of proteins that are either aberrant or (in the worst case) toxic is fundamental to a cell's survival. Researchers from Charité...

(Umea University) The views among physicians and the general public when it comes to deciding whether to withhold or withdraw treatment of terminally ill patients...

Most people are concerned about the prospect of their social media accounts being hacked, but a new study finds that it's actually people we know...

The same mechanical principles underlie whether the DVD player skips and whether the most advanced surgical robot will rotate its scalpel arm to the wrong...

Credit: Wolfgang Däuble / CeMM (Vienna, 19 January 2017) Genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 "gene scissors" is a powerful tool for biological discovery and for identifying...

Credit: University of Nottingham Engineers at The University of Nottingham are developing lightweight automotive components using new additive manufacturing processes to boost vehicle fuel efficien..

Credit: MIPT's Press Office Researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed a theory that gives the possibility to precisely predict the...

New research from a beach-roaming biomechanics engineer paints a surprisingly industrious picture of limpets -- the marine snails that are abundantly plastered on rocks at...

Credit: Andrew Grieshop Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have found that while advanced wood-burning cookstoves can provide...

Credit: photo/©: Georg Schneider, JGU As self-evident as it is that matter exists, its origins are just as mysterious. According to the principles of particle...

The membrane of a cell is composed of a lipid bilayer. Lipids are good chemical and electrical insulators, which are ideally suited to separating the...

Water purification processes usually make use of robust membranes for filtering off contaminants while working at high pressures. Can materials employing water as major component...