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Credit: Tommy LaVergne/Rice University Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has received one of the most prestigious honors in her field, the Association for Computing...

Geckos are well known for effortlessly scrambling up walls and upside down across ceilings. Even in slippery rain forests, the lizards maintain their grip. Now...

To treat headaches, back pain or fever, most of us have reached for ibuprofen at one point or another. But we often have to take...

The Trump administration's proposed plan for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency includes completely defunding several programs related to climate change, public health and pollution, accord..

AURORA, Colo. (April 26, 2017) - Using a unique microscope capable of illuminating living cell structures in great detail, researchers at the University of Colorado...

Credit: Digital Life/David McIntyre AMHERST, Mass. - The Digital Life team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by evolutionary biologist Duncan Irschick today unveiled...

The ASIP Young Scientist Leadership Award is supported by the A.D. Sobel - ASIP Education Fund and recognizes outstanding and sustained achievements at the earliest...

The Cotran Early Career Investigator Award is partially supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Elsevier, an ASIP Corporate Partner. This award recognizes early career...

Efforts to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels are advancing on various significant fronts. Such initiatives include research focused on more efficient production of gaseous...

Researchers at Tecnalia and the ICMCB-CNRS have recently published the article "Ultra-Fast Supercritical Hydrothermal Synthesis of Tobermorite under Thermodynamically Metastable Conditions" in the pre..

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) Medical Research Fellows Program has selected 79 talented medical and veterinary students to conduct in-depth, mentored biomedical research. Fifty-thr..

Credit: Provided by: Alexander Mordvintsev, Christopher Olah and Mike Tyka In 1968, sociologist Jean Baudrillard wrote on automatism that "contained within it is the dream...

Boston Medical Center is now generating much of its own electricity and heat through a natural gas-fired, 2 megawatt combined heat and power plant (CHP,...

Credit: Masahiro Yoshimoto Nagoya, Japan - A Nagoya University-led team reveals the mechanisms behind different earthquakes at a plate boundary on the west coast of...

Credit: University of Konstanz In nature, bacteria occur mostly in multi-cellular collectives, rather than as individuals. They are capable of coordinating their behaviour, with some...