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Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science If you get up in the morning feeling energetic and clearheaded, you can thank your liver for manufacturing glucose before...

Credit: Hilary Dugan (Millbrook, NY) North America's freshwater lakes are getting saltier due to development and exposure to road salt. A study of 371 lakes...

Food purists may have cause to celebrate thanks to a recent international study directed by the University of British Columbia. The study, which evaluated the...

Credit: Kenji Suetsugu Two new species of parasitic plants have been discovered on the main island of Okinawa, Japan. The discovery was made by Project...

For certain frequencies of short-wave infrared light, most biological tissues are nearly as transparent as glass. Now, researchers have made tiny particles that can be...

Credit: Th. Splettstösser/HZB The experiments took place at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) free-electron laser in California as well as the BESSY II synchrotron...

Credit: TU Wien Diamonds with minute flaws could play a crucial role in the future of quantum technology. For some time now, researchers at TU...

ERC grant: An advanced ERC grant for Kim Sneppen of DKK 16.500.000 was awarded for development of new methods and models to explore the diverse...

UK and US share a similar mindset when it comes to horizontal drilling for shale energy, say Cardiff University researchers and colleagues While an entire...

Researchers from King's College London have discovered a specific class of inhibitory neurons in the cerebral cortex which plays a key role in how the...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Though they may seem rock solid, the ancient sedimentary rocks called iron formations - the world's chief economic source of...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science In addition to the classic stress response in our bodies - an acute reaction that gradually abates when the threat...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Water is made of oxygen and hydrogen, and splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen for fuel is a promising path...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science In the most common type of supernova, the iron core of a massive star suddenly collapses in on itself and...

Credit: (Photo: HITS) When it comes to extreme events, public discussion of forecasts often focuses on predictive performance. After the international financial crisis of 2007,...