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Credit: Alexandre Bonnefoy In 2014 reports of an Antarctic fur seal coercing king penguins into sexual relations made headlines worldwide, as it was the first...

Plants with a particular breeding system change their sex depending on how much light they receive, new scientific research has revealed. The ability of plants...

Credit: Osaka University The formation and refinement of neural networks is known to be often an activity-dependent process, but mechanisms and nature of activity are...

Because it is impossible to predict which acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients will benefit, all patients are routinely treated with chemotherapy although only some will...

(University of Granada) Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) and from hospitals Virgen de las Nieves and San Cecilio (Granada) have proved that telerehabilitation...

Credit: Osaka University The importance of glutamine metabolism for colon cancer was revealed by Masamitsu Konno, Ph.D, Masaaki Miyo, M.D. Ph.D, Masaki Mori, M.D. Ph.D...

Credit: University of Leicester Team studied fruit flies with a mutation that mimics the human disease Niacin/Vitamin B3 is found in a variety of foods...

TORONTO, Jan. 10, 2017 - A new study could explain how migrating to another country increases a person's risk of developing schizophrenia, by altering brain...

Credit: Osaka University Autophagy has long been considered as a physiological process solely for degradation, but its secretory role has recently emerged. A group of...

Predicting how species will respond to climate change is a critical part of efforts to prevent widespread climate-driven extinction, or to predict its consequences for...

Silicon is the dominant material in the production of solar cells. However, perovskites are catching up: they are cheap, flexible and have a promising light-to-electricity...

Health scientists at the University of York have shown that in the 25 years since the NHS was tasked with digitising patient records there has...

Credit: University of Nottingham Bioengineers at The University of Nottingham are trialling how to use shrimp shells to make biodegradable shopping bags as a 'green'...

Credit: Bild: le Noble/KIT A team of researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) shake at the foundations of a dogma of cell biology. By...

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a wearable assistive device for the visually impaired, which enables them to sense their environment and move...