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New research has shown that the benchmark used by the Office for Nuclear Regulation for judging how much should be spent on nuclear safety has...

GAMBIER, Ohio -- Human activity and development are correlated with reduced carbon storage in wetland soils, a new study published in Nature Communications shows. The...

Credit: Huber and Hoelz/Caltech For proteins, this would be the equivalent of the red-carpet treatment: each protein belonging to the complex machinery of ribosomes --...

In what could be called a classic "Eureka" moment, UC Santa Barbara materials researchers have discovered a simple yet effective method for mastering the electrical...

Loading video... Credit: Video credit to Colin Ophus, Berkeley Lab. Video courtesy of Nature. Barely wider than a strand of human DNA, magnetic nanoparticles --...

We're all pretty familiar with what happens when we sustain a knock on the head: First, the all-too-audible crack, accompanied perhaps by a moment of...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Two members of the Indiana University School of Medicine have launched a startup to commercialize software targeting improvement in pediatric patient care. The...

A new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente has identified genetic predictors of normal prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in healthy...

n many developing countries, a significant fraction of the tuberculosis burden comes potentially from the tuberculosis bacteria carried by animals, essentially cattle. Efforts to reduce...

A newly identified genetic mechanism in rice can be utilized to maintain resistance to a devastating disease, without causing the typical tradeoff - a decrease...

Credit: Stein lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Entropy, the measure of disorder in a physical system, is something that physicists understand well when...

Credit: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - Feb. 2, 2017 - Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have invented a new technique...

Credit: Thiel, Kuepfer A team of researchers has used a computational modeling approach to analyze and compare the toxic effects of fifteen different drugs on...

Credit: Credit: Wisconsin Center for Sleep and Consciousness. Madison, Wis. -- Striking electron microscope pictures from inside the brains of mice suggest what happens in...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Even as treatment options for laryngeal cancer seemed to improve, survival rates did not. For the most advanced patients, 50 percent...