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Worldwide, more than three million children die each year on the day they are born - either during birth or shortly afterwards. If their mothers...

Credit: The Graduate Center NEW YORK, October 20, 2017 - The Graduate Center (GC) of the City University of New York (CUNY) has entered into...

Credit: Ill./ ©: Jonathan Siebert, JGU Everyone knows that long bits of yarn, or charging cables and the like, tend to get quickly tangled and...

Credit: Andy Tay Kah Ping MRS Bulletin has named Andy Tay Kah Ping, Stanford University, as the inaugural recipient of the MRS Bulletin Postdoctoral Publication...

Credit: Danny Longman Human brains are expensive - metabolically speaking. It takes lot of energy to run our sophisticated grey matter, and that comes at...

Credit: Nikolas Hagemann/University of Tübingen For more than 100 years, biochar, a carbon-rich, charcoal-like substance made from oxygen-deprived plant or other organic matter, has both...

Credit: Berkeley Lab The energy and climate benefits of cool roofs have been well established: By reflecting rather than absorbing the sun's energy, light-colored roofs...

Credit: Arc Centre of Excellence Coral Reef Studies One of the largest global mass extinctions did not fundamentally change marine ecosystems, scientists have found. An...

Credit: IOF Today, on the occasion of World Osteoporosis Day, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) has issued the first edition of a comprehensive and scientifically...

The Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center will host over 200 leading clinicians, physicists and researchers in the growing field of proton therapy at the 4th...

Athens, Ga. -- A sharp rise in the number of women seeking BRCA genetic testing to evaluate their risk of developing breast cancer was driven...

Credit: Courtesy of Albert Einstein College of Medicne October 19, 2017--(Bronx, NY)--In a study in today's issue of Science, researchers at Albert Einstein College of...

Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The number of newly diagnosed cancer patients who were uninsured fell by one-third in the first year of the...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Researchers at MIT have developed a synthetic gene circuit that triggers the body's immune system to attack cancers when it detects signs...

For the first time, scientists have provided unbiased estimates of the number of mutations needed for cancers to develop, in a study of more than...