Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Amherst chemist Sankaran "Thai" Thayumanavan has received a three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Science...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Under a microscope, a cell's cytoplasm can resemble a tiny underwater version of New York's Times Square: Thousands of proteins swarm through...
Credit: John Innes Centre A sophisticated mechanism that allows plant roots to quickly respond to changes in soil conditions has been identified by an international...
Credit: Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance. Mechanical loading, or forces that stimulate cellular growth for development, is required for creating cartilage that is then turned...
Credit: Chanclud and Lacombe A bowl of salad contains more than vitamins and minerals. Plant matter also includes remnants of the hormones plants produce to...
Credit: Tapinos et. al. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Scientists may have identified a new opening to intervene in the process of healing peripheral nerve damage with...
Many people report positive health effects from practicing yoga and meditation, and experience both mental and physical benefits from these practices. However, we still have...
Credit: ESF In the megacities that are home to nearly 10 percent of the world's 7.5 billion people, trees provide each city with more than...
Credit: Provided by Baycrest Health Sciences Female teenagers living in neighbourhoods with wide salary gaps and a low-income household show changes to their brain maturation...
Credit: James Short La Jolla, Calif., August 22, 2017 - Researchers from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), the Cardiovascular Institute at Stanford University...
Credit: Photos courtesy of Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs PRINCETON, N.J.--In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange pulp were purposefully unloaded onto...
After the Zika epidemic, which began in 2015, and the outbreak of yellow fever early in 2017, Brazil runs a serious risk of being afflicted...
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Take a fish out of water and its stress hormones will go up. Adrenaline and noradrenaline,...
WASHINGTON - Quantum dots (QDs) have found so many applications in recent years, they can now be purchased with a variety of composite structures and...
Credit: NC State University Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a high-throughput technique that can determine if a chemical has the potential to...
