Credit: Barqa Landscape Project/University of Waterloo. Industrial pollution may seem like a modern phenomenon, but in fact, an international team of researchers may have discovered...
Cortisol is a life sustaining adrenal hormone essential to maintaining the natural balance of the body. It is often referred to as "the stress hormone,"...
Credit: Nature Following a successful diet, many people are dismayed to find their weight rebounding - an all-too-common phenomenon termed "recurrent" or "yo-yo" obesity. Worse...
Stephen J. Elledge, the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, has been named a 2017 recipient of...
Credit: © 2016 KAUST Rice is a staple for more than half of the world's population, yet it is also the most salt-sensitive cereal crop....
Credit: © 2016 KAUST Modeling the combustion of fossil fuels by KAUST researchers has helped to characterize some of the components of methane, laying the...
Credit: UBC The ancient Japanese art of flower arranging was the inspiration for a groundbreaking technique to create tiny "artificial brains" that could be used...
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich chemist Oliver Trapp has designed and synthesized a catalyst which flexibly molds the handedness of the reaction products with which it...
Credit: Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This delicate blue group of stars -- actually an irregular galaxy named IC 3583 -- sits some 30 million light-years...
SAN ANTONIO -- The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will honor two renowned researchers for their work in breast cancer at the 2016 San...
(San Diego, CA - December 1, 2016) - Physicians and researchers from Mount Sinai Health System are presenting influential research and study updates at the...
What if a smartphone app could help you avoid relapsing back to smoking even before you knew you were at risk? A researcher from the...
Credit: University of Notre Dame Gaining access to important biopharmaceuticals needed to treat illnesses and autoimmune diseases is one of the biggest obstacles developing countries...
Black light does more than make posters glow. Cornell researchers have developed a chemical tool to control inflammation that is activated by ultraviolet (UV) light....
Credit: University of Illinois In 2004, electrical engineering pioneers Nick Holonyak, Jr. and Milton Feng at the University of Illinois invented the transistor laser--a three-port...
