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A University of Texas at Dallas team is exploring whether teaching real-world science through a popular computer game may offer a more engaging and effective...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- By hijacking a cancer cell's own metabolism, researchers have found a way to tag and target...

BOSTON--Nutrition researcher Neal D. Barnard, M.D., and other speakers at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Annual Meeting call for a new approach...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A new, specially coated iron oxide nanoparticle developed by a team at MIT and elsewhere could provide an alternative to conventional gadolinium-based...

Credit: Sally Ryan Northwestern University's Joseph R. Moskal has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering's (AIMBE) College of Fellows. Moskal...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 14, 2017 -- Two researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sergei Kalinin and Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, have...

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 14, 2017 -- Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are small, semiconductor-based lasers that emit optical beams from their top surface, and one of...

Credit: © J. Lefcheck/VIMS. A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science links a long-term decline in Chesapeake Bay's eelgrass...

The Phoenix cluster is an enormous accumulation of about 1,000 galaxies, located 5.7 billion light years from Earth. At its center lies a massive galaxy,...

Albert Einstein considered the origin of the Earth's magnetic field one of the five most important unsolved problems in physics. The weakening of the geomagnetic...

Credit: Mary-Ann Muffoletto, Utah State University LOGAN, UTAH, USA - The world's current reliance on fossil fuel energy, which is finite and a major source...

Loading video... Credit: SFU A study led by SFU biology researcher Gerhard Gries found that the photoreceptors in the eyes of blow flies do more...

Credit: Stephan Hruszkewycz WASHINGTON, D.C., February 14, 2017 -- Quantum mechanics, the physics that governs nature at the atomic and subatomic scale, contains a host...

Credit: Scholars & Gentlemen /DNDi The non-profit research and development organization Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) has released results of a st..

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief spurts of radio emission, lasting just one-thousandth of a second, whose origins are mysterious. Fewer than two dozen have...