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In 2015 UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer and materials scientist Jonathan Berger developed an idea that could change the way people think about high-performance structural...

There is a direct link between a person's attitude on social media and the likelihood that their dieting efforts will succeed. In fact, Georgia Institute...

Credit: Wang and Luo Jiebo Luo and Yu Wang did not set out to predict who would win the 2016 U.S. presidential election. However, their...

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Treating multiple myeloma (MM) with myxoma virus (MYXV) eliminated a majority of malignant cells in preclinical studies, report investigators...

Many shark populations around the world are known to have declined over the past several decades, yet marine scientists lack important baseline information about what...

Credit: Jeffrey Chase/University of Delaware Injecting large amounts of offshore wind power into the U.S. electrical grid is manageable, will cut electricity costs, and will...

Credit: Rockefeller University and IBM Research Data collected through a crowdsourcing competition demonstrates that it is possible to accurately predict the smell of a molecule...

Ann Arbor, MI, Feb. 21, 2017 - In the U.S. more than 16 million people with smoking-related illnesses continue to use cigarettes. According to a...

Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Bart has developed in the Southern Pacific Ocean, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team of scientists, led by a group at the University of California, Riverside, has received a five-year, $5.1...

With the amazing ability to survey areas in complete darkness, night-vision cameras have revolutionized the security industry. But the materials and technology embodied in current...

Credit: Jennie Brewton / UCI Irvine, Calif., Feb. 21, 2017 - Global climate change is being felt in many coastal communities of the United States,...

Boston, MA-- Hearing loss affects 360 million people worldwide according to the World Health Organization. Inner ear sensory cells, called hair cells, are responsible for...

Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience In a study published in Cell Reports in February 2017, Matt Rowan, Ph.D., a Post-doctoral researcher in the...

Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that affects nearly 2.3 million...