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Smoking cigarettes can lead to illness and death. Free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired electrons, in inhaled smoke are thought...

Credit: Yao et al., 2015, Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Houston Getting crude oil from the wellhead to its downstream destination can be literally...

Credit: Zhijia Du, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy COMPUTING - Quantum deep In a first for deep learning, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led team...

Credit: UTA The American Physical Society has awarded Benjamin Jones, assistant professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Arlington, the Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation...

Credit: Ken Olsen A new study in the April 3 issue of Nature Genetics describes an ancestry.com-type adventure that reveals the deep history of a...

A new study from North Carolina State University finds a significant shortfall in the amount of "refuge" cropland being planted in North Carolina -- likely...

Credit: Norbury Estate A major new decade-long experiment by scientists at the University of Birmingham to study the impact of climate and environmental change on...

The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI), a Yale-based program that makes the latest tools and research in forest restoration and sustainable management accessible to...

Credit: Photo: Urban Tillmann. Researchers have obtained an unprecedented view of the 'ballistic' weaponry of planktonic microbes, including one that can fire projectiles as if...

Credit: Image: Photostock. Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials science discovery program launched by the...

Credit: Baylor Colleg of Medicine Some cancer therapies aim at stopping tumor growth by affecting the blood vessels that nurture the tumor mass, while others...

Climate scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre have shown that the early mitigation needed to limit eventual warming below potentially dangerous levels has a...

Credit: Takigucki et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2017 -- Contrary to the tremendous success story of electronic integration, photonic integration is still in its...

Loading video... Credit: Saif Islam, UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Tiny "black holes" on a silicon wafer make for a new type...

Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of making membranes capable of sieving com..