Credit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford News Service Scientists have spent decades searching for a safe alternative to the flammable liquid electrolytes used in lithium-ion batteries. Now Stanford...
Newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) -- a common virus in the herpes family -- may have an increased risk of developing acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL),...
It is known from previous research that the ER-beta estrogen receptor often has a protective effect. A new study from Lund University in Sweden has...
New cancer therapies harness the immune system to fight tumors. One of the main principles behind these therapies is to find out precisely which molecules...
Chemistry researchers have found the key to a SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) - a natural mutation in humans - which offers protection against cardiovascular disease,...
Credit: Stuart Wolpert/UCLA A new technique of analyzing brain patterns appears to help people overcome fear and build self-confidence. The approach, developed by a UCLA-led...
(University of Helsinki) A research group led by University of Helsinki Docent Timo Myöhänen has succeeded in correcting the motor symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease...
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Aging degradation and seismic damage of civil infrastructure pose a serious problem for society. One promising technology for monitoring the...
Credit: MIT Energy Initiative / Opus Design CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Distributed energy resources -- relatively small-scale power technologies such as solar, wind, energy storage, and...
Thanks to an imaging technique called optical spectroscopy, it is possible for hatcheries to accurately determine the sex of a chick within four days of...
Credit: Harada et al. Twinning is a crystal-growth disorder in which the specimen is composed of distinct domains whose orientations differ but are related in...
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - A group of University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers who are stewards of the campus' plant cell culture library (PCCL)...
Credit: James G. Fujimoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology WASHINGTON -- An industry-academic collaboration has achieved the first optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of cubic meter...
Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - Aromatic molecules consist of planar carbon-based rings with alternating single and double (Ï€) bonds. These molecules contain 4n+2 (n...
Amsterdam, December 15, 2016 - Taking the pill doesn't lower your sexual desire, contrary to popular belief, according to research published in The Journal of...
