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Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levy (STScI) For the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, it's been a long time...

While many anti-aging drugs don't live up to their claim, a tightly replicated study by Rutgers and a group of researchers from around the country...

Credit: NASA On Earth, liquid flows downhill thanks to gravity. Creating an effective liquid fuel tank involves little more than putting a hole at the...

Credit: Simon Carn / Michigan Technological University Volcanoes erupt, they spew ash, their scarred flanks sometimes run with both lava and landslides. But only occasionally....

Anti-cancer drugs blocking the PD-1 pathway - known as checkpoint inhibitors - are now FDA-approved for melanoma, lung cancer and several other types of cancer....

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic scientists have identified a specific protein implicated in drug resistance, as well as a possible therapeutic tool. Their work appears...

Loading video... Credit: NYU Langone Medical Center A global research team has built five new synthetic yeast chromosomes, meaning that 30 percent of a key...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Metal fatigue can lead to abrupt and sometimes catastrophic failures in parts that undergo repeated loading, or stress. It's a major cause...

Led by Tianjin University (TJU) Professor Ying-Jin Yuan, TJU's synthetic biology team has completed the synthesis of redesigned yeast chromosomes synV and synX with the...

Credit: Credits: NASA JPL/Ed Olsen Just after Tropical Cyclone 11S formed in the Southern Indian Ocean NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead gathering data using infrared...

A new UCLA study could change scientists' understanding of how the brain works -- and could lead to new approaches for treating neurological disorders and...

Faster, more efficient data storage and computer logic systems could be on the horizon thanks to a new way of tuning electronic energy levels in...

Credit: University of Pennsylvania The field of metamaterials, an intersection of materials science, physics, nanotechnology and electrical engineering, aims to produce structures with unusual elec..

Credit: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL - March 9, 2017 - Scientists on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have designed...

Credit: LANL LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 9, 2017--Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in collaboration with the University of California - Irvine (UCI) have uncovered...