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Scientists have shed new light on how the common painkiller paracetamol causes liver damage. Their findings may offer valuable insights into poisoning caused by an...

Scientists have for the first time determined the molecular structure of a new antibiotic which could hold the key to tackling drug resistant bacteria. The...

An oversight in a radioisotope dating technique used to date everything from meteorites to geologic samples means that scientists have likely overestimated the age of...

Credit: Shuyuan Lin WASHINGTON, D.C., January, 31, 2017 -- Our muscles are amazing structures. With the trigger of a thought, muscle filaments slide past each...

Tau is a key brain protein involved in Alzheimer's disease and other brain diseases. Aggregates of Tau known as "neurofibrillary tangles" have been associated with...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Guardant Health today announced a multi-year partnership designed to accelerate comprehensive...

Credit: Valo Therapeutics Valo Therapeutics recently closed its seed funding round, establishing strategic partnerships with world class investors in this rapidly growing scientific space. The...

Credit: Fran Webber/NIST Providing wireless communications in a factory, plant or other industrial environment these days means more than just helping employees talk with each...

LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy Professor E. Ward Plummer has been honored with the Award for International Scientific Cooperation from the Chinese Academy of...

CHEYENNE, Wyoming -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is launching operations this month of one of the world's most powerful and energy-efficient supercomputers,...

Credit: Evan Krape/University of Delaware The University of Delaware's Anderson Janotti has won a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to develop computational...

Salofa Oy will commercialise the blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) test originally developed by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Turku. Salofa...

Credit: University of Bath Creating a new generation of advanced pacemakers which adapt to the demands of a patient's body is the goal of a...

Credit: Press photo Scientists of Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in collaboration with the French, Swiss and Polish researchers have found unique atomic-scale...

Credit: NASA Preliminary research results for the NASA Twins Study debuted at NASA's Human Research Program's annual Investigators' Workshop in Galveston, Texas the week of...