The vertebrate eye is a remarkable evolutionary invention, displaying an incredible repertoire, from a soaring falcon's keen distance vision to the special night and near...
Since 2008, MIT economist Tavneet Suri has studied the financial and social impacts of Kenyan mobile-money services, which allow users to store and exchange monetary...
Credit: Photo courtesy of the University of Nevada, Reno. RENO, Nev. - Turning meadow restoration into cleaner air is the goal of researchers at the...
Credit: Steve WaiChing Sun, Columbia Engineering Prof Steve WaiChing Sun Wins Air Force's Young Investigator Program Award to Model Load Response of Granular Materials Steve...
Credit: Sordella Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Discovered in the 1970s, tumor suppressors are among the most important proteins in the body. A...
Credit: UT Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington has won three national U.S. Department of Transportation grants that could be worth about $12 million...
Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL for Masaaki Yamada. Ellen Zweibel photo courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Magnetic reconnection research sheds light on explosive phenomena in astrophysics..
Jennifer Lycette, M.D., understands the importance of treating patients with cancer at home in their in rural communities. It allows them to spend more time...
A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has identified six loci or regions of the human genome that are significantly linked to personality traits, report...
Credit: Jonathan Cohen/Binghamton University BINGHAMTON, NY - While investigating mass transit accidents, especially in air travel, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials often rely ..
Credit: University of Massachusetts Medical School CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing is quickly revolutionizing biomedical research, but the new technology is not yet exact. The technique can...
Credit: Flickr user, wanderingseoul61 Extinctions related to climate change have already happened in hundreds of plant and animal species around the world. New research, publishing...
Credit: Andrew Whitehead/UC Davis Evolution is working hard to rescue some urban fish from a lethal, human-altered environment, according to a study led by the...
How do juvenile songbirds learn to sing in a way that preserves both the unique features of local song culture and their specifics-specific song "signature"?...
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Reporting new research results involves detailed descriptions of methods and materials used in an experiment. But...
