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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief spurts of radio emission, lasting just one-thousandth of a second, whose origins are mysterious. Fewer than two dozen have...

(Salk Institute) Salk Professor Tony Hunter, who holds an American Cancer Society Professorship, has been awarded $500,000 as part of the $1 million Royal Swedish...

Leesburg, VA, Feb. 14, 2017--With educational activities representing the entire spectrum of radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) will host leading radiologists from around...

For the first time, astronomers from MIT and elsewhere have observed a star pulsing in response to its orbiting planet. The star, which goes by...

Credit: Palomar Observatory Sky Survey Astronomers are reporting a rare star as big -- or bigger -- than the Earth's sun and that is expanding...

Scientists at VIB-KU Leuven have identified a new mechanism that impacts tumor growth. The typical lack of oxygen in tumors doesn't only stimulate proliferation, but...

Credit: Credits: NASA NASA's Terra satellite saw strong thunderstorms spiraling into the heart of Tropical Cyclone Dineo on Valentine's Day as it continued to strengthen...

Credit: University of Notre Dame/Matt Cashore Scientists are one step closer to mimicking the way biological systems interact and process information in the body -...

Credit: Jeff Miller/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- The National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine issued a 258-page report Tuesday (Feb. 14) focused on...

Credit: Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi Nagoya, Japan - Plant growth and development relies on the movement of mineral ions from the soil to the transport system of...

Credit: Kobe University How do plants give up photosynthesis and become parasites? A research team in Japan are using comprehensive analysis of gene expression in...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study contradicts decades of thought, research and teaching on the history of corn cultivation...

Credit: Jeroen Brijs Why do trout spend so much time in potentially dangerous estuaries before migrating to sea? In a new thesis published at University...

Credit: Erlantz Lizundia (UPV/EHU) Erlantz Lizundia, a researcher in the UPV/EHU's department of Physical Chemistry and expert in cellulose, started the research during a period...

Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a surprising connection between a supermassive black hole and the galaxy...