A massive new study involving blood samples from over 30,000 individuals has identified 13 new genetic risk factors for glioma, the most common type of...
Credit: NASA NASA is working to forever change the way astronauts communicate to and from space using an advanced laser communications system called LEMNOS, which...
Credit: John-David Rocha and Reginald Rogers A new class of carbon nanotubes could be the next-generation clean-up crew for toxic sludge and contaminated water, say...
Credit: Eunice Soh About 80 million years ago, a group of bees began exhibiting social behavior, which includes raising young together, sharing food resources and...
Loading video... Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Kathryn Mersmann Wheat, rice, sugar, cotton and maize are among the essential internationally traded crops in the global...
Credit: South Florida Water Management District "Resilience" is a buzzword often used in scientific literature to describe how animals, plants and landscapes can persist under...
Credit: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University study shows that the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes can live inside the tissue of romaine lettuce,...
BETHESDA, Md., March 29, 2017 - Cutting-edge multidisciplinary research from across the life sciences will be presented at the Experimental Biology 2017 meeting (EB 2017),...
Credit: UAB News BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Research teams from the University of Alabama at Birmingham's School of Medicine and the University of Notre Dame have...
Credit: Tyrrell et al (2017) The width of a bird's visual binocular field is partially determined by the size of the blind area in front...
UBC scientists have scanned the genome of cannabis plants to find the genes responsible for giving various strains their lemony, skunky or earthy flavors, an...
Credit: NASA In 2011, researchers observed something that should be impossible -- a massive bloom of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice in conditions that...
Credit: Image by Yelena Khavina, courtesy of the MIPT press office In a study published in Brain Research, biophysicists from the Institute of Theoretical and...
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: American Chemical Society Since ancient times, people have used lustrous silver, platinum and gold to make jewelry and other adornments. Researchers have now developed...
