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Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - As fall sports seasons get under way and concerns related to concussions in contact sports continue to grow,...

Credit: Rena D'Souza Researchers at University of Utah Health clarified a molecular pathway responsible for the formation of cleft palate and identified a new treatment...

Credit: University of Houston A team of researchers from the University of Houston has reported a breakthrough in stretchable electronics that can serve as an...

Credit: B. Freeman Birds often choose their mates based on song, making it a key factor in separating species. However, analyzing spectrograms can only tell...

Credit: Lijing Cheng Humans have released carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and the result is an accumulation of heat in the Earth's climate system,...

Credit: UBC Okanagan A new bio-ink that may support a more efficient and inexpensive fabrication of human tissues and organs has been created by researchers...

Credit: Ben-Gurion U. BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL...September 13, 2017 - Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed miniaturized hyperspectral technology as an add-on for...

Credit: Department of Chemistry, HKUST o-Succinylbenzoyl-CoA (OSB-CoA) synthetase (MenE) is an essential enzyme in bacterial vitamin K biosynthesis and an important target in the development...

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a way of overcoming one of the major stumbling blocks that has prevented the development of a vaccine...

Credit: University of British Columbia Two birds that look the same, but have songs so different they can't recognize each other, should be considered distinct...

Catalysts are agents that initiate chemical reactions, speed them up or significantly increase the yield of the desired product. New and improved catalysts are thus...

Nature and society are full of so-called real-world complex systems, such as protein interactions. Theoretical models, called complex networks, describe them and consist of nodes...

Proteins are fundamental macromolecules for life, with a diversity of functions, like acting as channels through cellular walls, catalysers, DNA benders, etc. When it comes...

One of the most common waterborne diseases worldwide is cryptosporidiosis, a parasitic disease affecting the small intestine and possibly our airways. It is a common...

Credit: Anton Pauw New research from Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa shows that, in an extraordinary case of adaptation, the disproportionately long front legs...