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Credit: Howard Berg, Harvard University The bacterial flagellum is one of nature's smallest motors, rotating at up to 60,000 revolutions per minute. To function properly...

Credit: Credit Stephen Grasby and Geological Society of America Bulletin Boulder, Colo., USA: Cretaceous climate warming led to a significant methane release from the seafloor,...

PITTSBURGH--Will a robot take away my job? Many people ask that question, yet policymakers don't have the kind of information they need to answer it...

Loading video... Credit: Naisbett-Jones Each year, young European eels make their way from breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea to coastal and freshwater habitats from...

Credit: © ScienceRelations/University of Luxembourg The most complex organ in humans is the brain. Due to its complexity and, of course, for ethical reasons, it...

The cancer profile of African-born blacks differs from that of United States-born blacks and varies by region of birth, according to a new study. The...

Credit: Zhang et. al. As the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, nitrogen has been an attractive option as a source of renewable energy. But...

(Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie) Physicists achieved a robust and reliable magnetization switching process by domain wall displacement without any applied fields. The effect...

Credit: Samuel Dunning and David Steadman/University of Texas at Austin Chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a material that holds the...

Credit: Aalto University Researchers show empirically: when population pressure increases, food is imported The Earth's capacity to feed its growing population is limited - and...

Credit: David Seekell What is the volume of water in lakes on Earth? Using a mathematical analysis, researcher David Seekell, at Umeå University, and his...

Oxford University Press (OUP), together with Zhejiang University Press (ZUP) in Hangzhou, China, has launched a new, peer reviewed open-access journal: Food Quality and Safety...

Bacteria have supplied some of today's most indispensable anti-cancer and anti-bacterial drugs. Yet these compounds comprise only a fraction of their possible offerings. Now, researchers...

Credit: Fabio Nascimento-DNDi A study of almost 5,000 Latin American-born residents of Los Angeles County found that 1.24% tested positive for Chagas disease, a parasitic...

Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System Researchers have developed a technique to watch the movement of genes inside living cells in real time. They...