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Credit: Sarah Wong Chemical compounds that emit light are used in a variety of different materials, from glow-in-the-dark children's toys to LED lights to light-emitting...

Credit: Youhei Takeda Mechanochromic luminescent (MCL) materials change their color in response to a change in their environment, like pressure and temperature. To date, most...

Development of new strategies and novel drug design to treat trophoblastic diseases and to provide pregnancy success are of crucial importance in maintenance the female...

Credit: Dr. Hidetoshi Arima The prevalence of diabetes has grown around the world over the past three decades. In 2016, the World Health Organization estimated...

Credit: Polina Nesterova Scientists led by a team at Caltech have developed a new method for potentially removing nearly all sulfur compounds from gas and...

Credit: Interact Lab, University of Sussex, copyright © 2017 A super-material that bends, shapes and focuses sound waves that pass through it has been invented...

Credit: Drexel University Great ideas so often get lost in translation -- from the math teacher who can't get through to his students, to a...

Universal public coverage of 117 essential medicines could address the needs of most Canadians for pharmaceutical drugs, and possibly save more than $4 billion a...

Publicly funding essential medicines could cover the cost of nearly half of all prescriptions in Canada, removing financial barriers for Canadians while saving $3 billion...

A proposed Marine Protected Area (MPA) off Scotland's west coast would help basking sharks, researchers say. Scientists from the University of Exeter and Scottish Natural...

Research published today in Environmental Communication suggests that scientists may have more freedom than previously thought to engage in certain forms of climate change advocacy...

Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff A powerful class of antibiotics provides life-saving relief for people with cystic fibrosis; however, a new study for the first time reveals...

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have identified a mechanism that controls the expression of genes regulating the growth of the most aggressive form of medulloblastoma,...

Credit: Victor O. Leshyk Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new tool to identify interactions between RNA and DNA molecules....

Credit: (Image courtesy of Ahmad Rafsanjani/Harvard SEAS) Origami-inspired materials use folds in materials to embed powerful functionality. However, all that folding can be pretty labor...