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Credit: Federica Bertocchini, Paolo Bombelli, and Chris Howe Generally speaking, plastic is incredibly resistant to breaking down. That's certainly true of the trillion polyethylene plastic...

Loading video... Credit: César Hernández/Ainhoa Goñi A research scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Federica Bertocchini, has discovered that wax worms (Galleria mellonella),...

Credit: César Hernández/CSIC Scientists have found that a caterpillar commercially bred for fishing bait has the ability to biodegrade polyethylene: one of the toughest and...

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - When the standard malaria medications failed to help 18 critically ill patients, the attending physician in a...

Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois Using an atomic quantum simulator, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have achieved the first-ever direct...

Credit: Vladimer Gregory/CeMM (Vienna, April 24, 2016) Our immune system consists of a great variety of cell types fulfilling diverse tasks in monitoring tissue homeostasis...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - April 24, 2017 - Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a first-of-its-kind nanoparticle vaccine immunotherapy that targets several...

Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health Gallbladder cancer is a rare, but aggressive disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about...

CHAPEL HILL -- Although the health risks associated with indoor tanning are clear, tanning bed use among college-aged women is still popular. A new study...

Loading video... Credit: Jingyuan Qu, Muamer Kadic, and Martin Wegener WASHINGTON, D.C., April t24, 2017 -- In the not-too-distant future, it may be possible to...

Credit: Will Hobbs Wounds heal - the cells in a body knit over a cut. When a neuron dies, the brain can rewire itself to...

Artificial intelligence--commonly known as A.I.--is already exceeding human abilities. Self-driving cars use A.I. to perform some tasks more safely than people. E-commerce companies use A.I....

Credit: Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University Professor of the Institute of Civil Engineering of Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) Andrey Ponomarev a..

Credit: David Hungate/Virginia Tech Rengasayee "Sai" Veeraraghavan, a research assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, became the sixth person in the world...

Credit: Kosmas Prassides Fuel such as petrol is made up of hydrocarbons -- a family of molecules consisting entirely of carbon and hydrogen. Pigment and...