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Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Barbara Taylor One of the most sophisticated networks of acoustic detectors ever developed for wildlife science has documented a devastating 34 percent per...

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation today announced the award of NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grants valued at $1.5 million to 15 scientists, who are full...

Credit: Kyle Costa/Caltech Many infectious pathogens are difficult to treat because they develop into biofilms, layers of metabolically active but slowly growing bacteria embedded in...

Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Psoriasis is well-known for causing too many skin cells on elbows, knees, and across the body, but...

Credit: NASA Using data from NASA satellites and airport visibility sensors, Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers and colleagues are extending an approach used to study air...

Credit: TU Wien Just like in normal road traffic, crossings are indispensable in optical signal processing. In order to avoid collisions, a clear traffic rule...

Credit: Video: Thomas Bathon/Paolo Sessi/Matthias Bode Physicists of the University of Würzburg have made an astonishing discovery in a specific type of topological insulators. The...

Credit: Philip Krantz, Krantz NanoArt Jülich, 8 December 2016. An international team of scientists has succeeded in making further improvements to the lifetime of superconducting...

CHAPEL HILL - Why do some breast cancers respond to treatment while others resist it? A study led by researchers at the University of North...

Credit: Pawluk et al./Cell 2016 Researchers have discovered a way to program cells to inhibit CRISPR-Cas9 activity. "Anti-CRISPR" proteins had previously been isolated from viruses...

Credit: William Pinder In the typical food web that most of us learned in school, the sun is the ultimate source of energy. Plants use...

For some time now, scientists have known that climate influences soil chemistry -- and, in particular, soil pH, a measure of acidity or alkalinity. In...

Credit: iTZiT Visual Techonology/NIOO-KNAW Tiny predators in the soil can literally sniff out their prey: soil bacteria, which communicate with each other using scent. A...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - After decades of eluding researchers because of chemical instability, key metal-oxide clusters have been isolated in water, a significant advance for growing...

Credit: Reza Shahbazian-Yassar/UIC Battery researchers seeking improved electrode materials have focused on "tunneled" structures that make it easier for charge-carrying ions to move in and...