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Credit: ICN2 Measuring brain activity with precision is essential to developing further understanding of diseases such as epilepsy and disorders that affect brain function and...

Credit: IST Austria A simple ball of cells is the starting point for humans -- and zebrafish. At the end of embryonic development, however, a...

Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS Macromolecules regularly fold and unfold themselves inside cells. Their diverse three-dimensional structures help determine their functions. Understanding molecule fo..

Credit: 2017 Takeshi Izawa. A new strain of rice that flowers within a certain period of time after being sprayed with commercial chemicals commonly used...

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists and their collaborators have developed a new analysis tool that was able to show, for the first time, which genes...

Many cancer patients struggle with the adverse effects of chemotherapy, still the most prescribed cancer treatment. For patients with pancreatic cancer and other aggressive cancers,...

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Observations using ESO's Very Large Telescope have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from supermassive black holes at...

MADISON, Wis. -- Bacteria, like humans and animals, must eat. Sometimes, they consume a pollutant in the environment that humans want to get rid of,...

Credit: Philippe Albouy The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds, is incredibly important to our daily lives -- without it we...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2017 -- Proton therapy is a promising form of radiation treatment used to kill cancerous cells and effectively halt their rapid...

According to a theoretical model developed by physicists of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, in cell protrusions, cargo-transporting motor proteins often get in each other's way....

Credit: Nikole Arrieta / UPV/EHU "Because certain geological events record everything, studying them helps to reconstruct the environmental past and to determine how human beings...

Loading video... Credit: Carnegie Mellon University CyLab PITTSBURGH -- Carnegie Mellon University aims to build a talent pipeline into the cyber workforce by introducing computer...

An international group of scientists has used a novel highly sensitive method for detection of environmental DNA in groundwater to extend the poorly known range...

Where is marine litter concentrated, and which species and ecosystems does it affect? Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have for the first time compiled...