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Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology (left); Denise Applewhite, Princeton University (right) The National Science Foundation (NSF) today recognized Baratunde "Bara" A. Cola of the Georgia...

After more than a decade of declining cholera incidence, Vietnam faced an increase in cases of the diarrheal disease during 2007-2010. Risk factors for contracting...

(University of Bonn) Nematodes are a huge threat to agriculture since they parasitize important crops such as wheat, soybean, and banana; but plants can defend...

Loading video... Credit: Aaron Nathans, Princeton University As artificial intelligence systems "learn" language from existing texts, they exhibit the same biases that humans do, a...

Loading video... Credit: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Researchers have created a version of CRISPR-Cas that can be used to diagnose infections, such as...

Credit: Princeton University In debates over the future of artificial intelligence, many experts think of the new systems as coldly logical and objectively rational. But...

Credit: Waseda University Tokyo, April 14 - A research group led by Hitoshi Kurumizaka, a professor of structural biology at Waseda University, unveiled the crystal...

Credit: Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally, UC Berkeley. Harvester photos courtesy of MIT. Imagine a future in which every home has an appliance...

Credit: Image courtesy of Robert Landick MADISON, Wisconsin -- There are many processes that take place in cells that are essential for life. Two of...

Credit: Howard Berg, Harvard University The bacterial flagellum is one of nature's smallest motors, rotating at up to 60,000 revolutions per minute. To function properly...

Credit: Credit Stephen Grasby and Geological Society of America Bulletin Boulder, Colo., USA: Cretaceous climate warming led to a significant methane release from the seafloor,...

PITTSBURGH--Will a robot take away my job? Many people ask that question, yet policymakers don't have the kind of information they need to answer it...

Loading video... Credit: Naisbett-Jones Each year, young European eels make their way from breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea to coastal and freshwater habitats from...

Credit: © ScienceRelations/University of Luxembourg The most complex organ in humans is the brain. Due to its complexity and, of course, for ethical reasons, it...

The cancer profile of African-born blacks differs from that of United States-born blacks and varies by region of birth, according to a new study. The...