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For several years, scientists have been working toward "breathalyzers" that can diagnose various diseases without painful pinpricks, needles or other unpleasant methods. Now, one team...

(Boston)-- A new technique has been identified that quickly and cheaply recognizes illegal designer drugs that normally evade detection. The findings, described online in the...

We frequently encounter polyurethane (PU) foams in everyday life: they are in the insulation in house façades and refrigerators, in car seats, in living room...

Credit: Photo provided by POSTECH Superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted global attention due to their water-repellant characteristics and myriad number and variety of applications. A team...

Aquaculture experts from the University of Stirling and the Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA) in Catalonia, have found the way fish,...

A new model developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) shows how an electricity system mainly based on solar and wind works in all regions...

Up to now, the speed record for horizontal flight was held by birds from the swift family: the common swift, for example, can reach speeds...

Credit: Courtesy of Astrid Rollenhagen and Joachim Lübke; for details see Rollenhagen et al., J. Neurosci. 27: 10434-10444 (2007) Synapses form connections between neurons. Their...

Credit: Richard Spontak A multi-institutional research team has developed a new electroactive polymer material that can change shape and size when exposed to a relatively...

Credit: Dirk Notz For each tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) that any person on our planet emits, three square metres of Arctic summer sea ice...

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for $3.6 million over five years will support formation of MARISA (Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments), a...

Credit: Shigeki Moriguchi Researchers at Tohoku University have found a promising treatment for Alzheimer's disease, by noticing a similarity in the way insulin signaling works...

Credit: The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Australian emergency medicine researchers have successfully trialled an alternative deep sedative for patients in the emergency department. In..

Boston, MA - Women have a two-fold higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than men, yet strikingly little is known about how changes in brain...

Synapses, the place where brain cells contact one another, play a pivotal role in the transmission of toxic proteins. This allows neurodegenerative diseases such as...