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Credit: Kyoto University/Eiri Ono Kyoto, Japan -- Extraordinary decontamination efforts are underway in areas affected by the 2011 nuclear accidents in Japan. The creation of...

Credit: Credit: the authors. BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA, and CARDIFF, UK -- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), an optical imaging tool for monitoring of regional blood flow...

Credit: EDF A set of Google Street View mapping cars, specially equipped with cutting-edge methane analyzers, are allowing Colorado State University researchers to "see" invisible...

"Technophobes" -- people who fear robots, artificial intelligence and new technology that they don't understand -- are much more likely to be afraid of losing...

Finding and fixing natural gas leaks is a persistent challenge for utilities across the country. In addition to the serious safety considerations, leaking natural gas...

Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics Surfaces that have been coated with rare earth oxides develop water-repelling properties only after contact with air. Even...

Credit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering By the time someone realizes they damaged a ligament, tendon or cartilage from too much exercise or...

Ann Arbor, MI, March 22, 2017 - Discovery of the BRCA genetic mutation in the mid-90s represented a breakthrough in breast and ovarian cancer prevention....

Credit: Prof. Andrew Baird The discovery of a new species of hard coral, found on Lord Howe Island, suggests that the fauna of this isolated...

Credit: © Siveter et al An international team of scientists led by the University of Leicester has discovered a new 430 million-year-old fossil and has...

Credit: NASA March 21, 2017 Images returned from the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission indicate the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was a very active place...

Location-tracking apps on smartphones could be used to help track and manage care for thousands of patients who suffer from chronic diseases, and possibly even...

Credit: Cava lab Princeton researchers have discovered a new form of the simple compound GeSe that has surprisingly escaped detection until now. This so-called beta-GeSe...

WASHINGTON, March 21, 2017 -- Advances in understanding polymer networks and CRISPR-inspired genome engineering tools will be the topics of a pair of Kavli Lectures...

Researchers have long wondered if medications could treat alcohol abuse. Ihsan Salloum, M.D., chief of the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse at the University...