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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...

The international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which is imaging for the first time the black-hole candidate at the center of our Milky Way, has...

Credit: Xinyu Liu, Duke University WASHINGTON -- A new reconfigurable device that emits patterns of thermal infrared light in a fully controllable manner could one...

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in producing nanotubes from a single building block using so-called molecular self-recognition. The tube can also change...

Environmentally friendly fuels Volker Müller is one of the leading microbiologists worldwide in the field of microbial metabolism of microbes that grow in the absence...

Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore have discovered the primary mechanism driving the ..

ANN ARBOR, MI - Millions of times a year, Americans get prescriptions for a week's worth of steroid pills, hoping to ease a backache or...

Credit: Penn State A new method to improve semiconductor fiber optics may lead to a material structure that might one day revolutionize the global transmission...

The most common cause for the narrowing of the carotid artery is atherosclerosis, where so-called plaques build up on the vessel walls. If a plaque...