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Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA–(December 1, 2016) Ribosomes–macromolecular machines consisting of RNA and proteins that twist, fold and turn–are responsible for making all of the...

Credit: The Canadian Light Source (CLS) A team of researchers from McGill University has advanced the scientific understanding of abnormal mineral accumulation in arteries, a...

BOSTON — The Stand Up To Cancer-Cancer Research UK-Lustgarten Foundation Dream Team of top cancer researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom was...

Credit: Brooke L. Bessesen Carrying its petite frame and all-yellow skin, the recently scrutinized sea snake populations from Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, already seem different...

Credit: UBC A UBC invention has made it possible for doctors to vastly improve their bypass surgery techniques without relying on animals. The invention–synthetic heart...

The ability to switch disease-causing genes on and off remains a dream for many physicians, research scientists and patients. Research teams from across the world...

Empathy is a basic human ability. We often feel empathy toward and console others in distress. Is it possible for us to emphasize with humanoid...

Credit: Graphic: NTNU Industrial Ecology Programme/ Environmental Research Letters In 1915, a Scottish town planner and social activist named Patrick Geddes encouraged the readers of...

Credit: Holger Mohr et al. This works especially efficient when we are guided by explicit instructions. A team of researchers at TU Dresden has now...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA-The brain regulates social behavior differently in males and females, according to a new study published today in the Proceedings of...

Credit: Roy L. Caldwell, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California Taking a close look at the neural systems of mantis shrimp, top...

Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON – Drinking too much alcohol can damage the liver, but investigators have discovered a protective response in the...

Dublin, Ireland, November 16th, 2015 – An international team led by scientists in Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and Cambridge University, has, for the...

HOUSTON – (Feb. 22, 2016) – A new methodology developed by researchers at Rice and Rutgers universities could help scientists understand how and why a...

Credit: Liu and Zhou The increasing rate of the global mean surface temperature was reduced from 1998 to 2013, known as the global warming hiatus...