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The hidden toll that subsidies for electricity, fossil fuels, and transport have on social welfare, economic growth and technological innovation needs to be exposed through...

Credit: Aleksej Zelezniak/Francis Crick Institute A set of biochemical processes crucial to cellular life on Earth could have originated in chemical reactions taking place on...

Credit: Columbia University The appearance of supermassive black holes at the dawn of the universe has puzzled astronomers since their discovery more than a decade...

Credit: Manners Group, University of Bristol Scientists, led by Professor Ian Manners from the University of Bristol's School of Chemistry, have developed a facile route...

Credit: Wong et al., 2017 Researchers have mapped how the malaria drug mefloquine works, providing a route to make effective alternatives and combat rising drug...

Credit: Darcy Bradley Swimming with metaphorical sharks is one thing, but actually getting into the water with the razor-toothed ocean predators? Crazy, right? Not according...

SPOKANE, Wash.--A Washington State University researcher has found a way that prostate cancer cells hijack the body's bone maintenance, facilitating the spread of bone cancers...

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have discovered that a greater number of breast cancers are genetically similar to rarer cases...

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have mapped the conformational changes that occur in a protein "notorious" for pumping chemotherapeutic drugs out of cancer cells...

There are already one billion tobacco smokers worldwide, and this number is likely to rise further with Asian tobacco companies poised to enter the global...

New light-scattering tool offers minimally-invasive, highly accurate means of identifying pre-cancerous and cancerous pancreatic lesions. Currently, no diagnostic technique exists to reliably distingu..

A team of New York University chemists has created self-assembled, three-dimensional DNA crystals that can bind a separate, dye-bearing strand--a breakthrough that enhances the functionality...

ANN ARBOR--Extremely short, configurable "femtosecond" pulses of light demonstrated by an international team could lead to future computers that run up to 100,000 times faster...

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Researchers have for the first time mapped how one of the longest-serving malaria drugs works, opening...

Credit: Christa Neu, Lehigh University Communications + Public Affairs It is easy to speculate why fish might swim in schools -- better protection from predators,...