Credit: Courtesy Palmyra Atoll Research Consortium Researchers at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station investigated the role of expanded marine protected areas (MPAs) on grey reef...
Credit: Wyss Center, www.wysscenter.ch A brain-computer interface that can decipher the thoughts of people who are unable to communicate could revolutionize the lives of those...
Credit: Patrick Mansell, Penn State Data centers are the central point of many, if not most, information systems today, but the masses of wires interconnecting...
LOS ANGELES - Vast amounts of data transmit across the Internet and telecommunications networks delivering, for example, real-time video calls from one cell phone to...
Defects in a key gene - long thought to drive cancer by turning off the protection afforded by the well-known BRCA genes - spur cancer...
New research shows there may have been more nitrogen in the ocean between one and two billion years ago than previously thought, allowing marine organisms...
Credit: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research from Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station has identified a substance in oil that's to blame for the cardiotoxicity seen in...
HAMILTON, Feb. 1, 2017 - A consumer device designed to help users focus their thoughts is also generating valuable data for neuroscience research. A team...
Credit: Oxford University Not so long ago, observing fundamental particles was reserved for scientists with complex equipment. Now, technological progress mean anyone can explore the...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Compilers are programs that convert computer code written in high-level languages intelligible to humans into low-level instructions executable by machines. But there's...
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 31, 2017 -- A light-sensing protein from a salt-loving, sulfur-forming microbe has proved key to developing methods essential to advanced drug discovery,...
Credit: Susan Webb/Wits University Scientists have confirmed the existence of a "lost continent" under the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius that was left-over by the...
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2017- It's peak cold and flu season, and mucus is making many of our lives miserable. But...
Credit: Hiroshima University/NAOJ Galaxies in the universe trace patterns on very large scales; there are large empty regions (called "voids") and dense regions where the...
Credit: UC3M In recent decades, many scientific discoveries have depended on the analysis of an enormous volume of data, which is done essentially through computational...
