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Credit: Hiroaki Ito Osaka - Red blood cells, also called erythrocytes, need a certain springiness to circulate through the body. Some capillary blood vessels are...

A group of researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made the first iron-based molecule capable of emitting light. This could contribute to the development...

Credit: University of Konstanz Now, 50 years later, a group of physicists from Konstanz headed by Dr Peter Keim, were able to prove the Mermin-Wagner...

Credit: ETH Zurich / Université de Rennes The idea is intriguing: if only a single atom or small molecule was needed for a single unit...

Credit: Usina Trapiche S/A When talk is of important ecosystems, tropical forests are top of the list. After all, half of the carbon stored in...

(Royal Astronomical Society) Enigmatic dark energy, thought to make up 68% of the universe, may not exist at all, according to a Hungarian-American team. The...

Credit: Department of Stem Cell Regulation,TMDU Japanese researchers identify process to improve fluorescence detection of cancer stem cells, which are primarily responsible for brain tumor...

Credit: IDIBELL Researchers from the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program (PEBC) led by Dr. Manel Esteller at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have discovered...

Geneva, Switzerland -5 May-8 May 2017 Around 2,000 delegates from across Europe and worldwide will learn about the latest practice-changing science in the field of...

Amsterdam, March 30, 2017 - Scientists have uncovered how tumor cells in aggressive uterine cancer can switch disguises and spread so quickly to other parts...

Credit: Paul Dyson/EPFL Scientists at EPFL and NTU have discovered that combining an anticancer drug with an antirheumatic produces improved effects against tumors. The discovery...

Credit: Jerry Kirkhart, Flickr Foraging abilities of the amoeboid slime mold Physarum polycephalum may be improved by "noise" in the form of intermittent light exposure,...

Compressed sensing is an exciting new computational technique for extracting large amounts of information from a signal. In one high-profile demonstration, for instance, researchers at...

Credit: University of Notre Dame They are the chemicals that made consumers think twice about using nonstick cookware. New research in the journal Environmental Science...

Credit: Riley Brandt Radon gas is a colourless, odourless radioactive gas that has been linked to lung cancer. Now, University of Calgary, Cumming School of...