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Credit: UIC/ALEXANDER YARIN The bubbles that form on a heated surface create a tiny recoil when they leave it, like the kick from a gun...

Credit: Julius Lab, UCSF Sharks, rays and skates can hunt for prey hidden in the sandy sea floor by "listening" for faint traces of bioelectricity...

PULLMAN, Wash. - A meeting in a forest between a biologist and a mathematician could lead to thicker, faster growing trees. "Mathematicians like translating biological...

Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Blanche formed on March 5 near Australia's Top End, and made landfall the next day...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The scaffolding that holds the large-scale structure of the universe constitutes galaxies, dark matter and gas (from which stars...

Credit: Kathy F. Atkinson/University of Delaware Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are the power behind most modern portable electronics, including cell phones, tablets, laptops, fitness trackers,..

Credit: The Scripps Research Institute Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered how a protein called α2δ4 establishes proper...

Cage-like compounds called clathrates could be used for harvesting waste heat and turning it into electricity. UC Davis chemists just discovered a whole new class...

Credit: Chris Glembotski A protein found in the heart that is known to be involved in cellular stress responses in cancer cells is now believed...

Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Meixner (STScI) & the SAGE Legacy Team. The discovery of young stars in old star clusters could send scientists back to the...

Credit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA Head injuries can harm hundreds of genes in the brain in a way that increases people's risk for a wide range of...

Corals are calcifying animals and are the prime architects of the most diverse marine ecosystem, the coral reefs. The coral animal harbors tiny microalgae as...

Credit: Photo by Kenneth Chamberlain, courtesy of The Ohio State University. WOOSTER, Ohio--Tomorrow's tires could come from the farm as much as the factory. Researchers...

Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce Tropical Cyclone Enawo has continued to intensify while moving toward Madagascar. NASA's Aqua satellite showed the development of...

Credit: Goudge et al. and GSA Bulletin Boulder, Colo., USA: In their GSA Bulletin article published online last week, Timothy A. Goudge and colleagues detail...