(University of Cambridge) Fish embryo study indicates that the last common ancestor of vertebrates was a complex animal complete with gills -- overturning prior scientific...
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA's Terra satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Carlos as it moved south of La Reunion Island in the Southern Indian Ocean.
Credit: Gretchen Mahler BINGHAMTON, NY - Instead of running tests on live kidneys, researchers at Binghamton, University State University of New York have developed a...
Credit: ORNL OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 9, 2017 - Four technologies developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have earned Federal Laboratory...
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Understanding how oil and gas molecules, water and rocks interact at the nanoscale will help make extraction of hydrocarbons through hydraulic...
Credit: Images courtesy of Sarah Diefenbach. Selfies are enormously popular on social media. Google statistics have estimated that about 93 million selfies were taken per...
Positron emission tomography plays a pivotal role for monitoring the distribution and accumulation of radiolabeled nanomaterials in living subjects. The radioactive metals are usually connected...
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levy (STScI) The international team of astronomers observed the white dwarf WD 1425+540, about 170 light-years from Earth in the...
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI) For the first time, scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a massive object with the makeup...
Lugano, Feb. 9, 2017 - ESMO, the leading European professional organisation for medical oncology, has announced today a new award honouring individuals for outstanding achievements...
On average, a Danish dairy cow calve once a year. However, there are many indications that fewer calvings and extended milking periods have more advantages....
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 9, 2017 -- A research team of physicists from Harvard University has developed new hand-held spectrometers capable of the same performance as...
Credit: School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS -- Researchers have developed the first computer machine-learning model to accurately predict which patie..
Credit: Picture: Sabeen Survery and Urban Johanson. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have taken an important step on the road to understanding the underlying...
Credit: Photo: KIT The Middle Ages certainly were far from being science-friendly: Whoever looked for new findings off the beaten track faced the threat of...
