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Credit: Monika Weiner / TUM For years, small rechargeable lithium-ion batteries have reliably supplied billions of portable devices with energy. But manufacturers of high-energy applications...

Cambridge, Mass. -- Materials exposed to a high-radiation environment such as the inside of a nuclear reactor vessel can gradually degrade and weaken. But to...

Credit: Melissa Van De Werfhorst UC Santa Barbara professors James Speck and Larry Coldren are among the newest fellows of the National Academy of Inventors...

Credit: Gen-Sheng Feng, UC San Diego Health Some cancers are caused by loss of enzymes that should keep cell growth in check. On the flip...

The brain tumour form glioblastoma is difficult to treat and has very poor prognosis. In a new study, published today in the journal Cell Reports,...

Our brain's changing structure, not simply getting older and wiser, most affects our attitudes to risk, according to new research. The University of Sydney's Dr...

Ebola virus is one of a variety of viruses that causes a disease that comes under the general heading of viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF). Since...

The National Institutes of Health Common Fund announced today the first awards for the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity in Humans Program, which will allow...

The sonic boom created by an airplane comes from the craft's large, speeding body crashing into molecules in the air. But if you shrank the...

Credit: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation SEATTLE - More than 2,000 US counties witnessed increases of 200% or more in deaths related to substance...

Overweight people could be given help with the discovery that a drug used for sleep disorder could also reduce the impulse for food. There are...

Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., Dec. 13, 2016 -- With the support of a major National Institutes of Health initiative, University of California,...

Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 13, 2016--Precise, economical genome editing tools such as CRISPR have made it possible to make...

Credit: Courtesy of Jennifer Hampton Hill EUGENE, Ore. -- Dec. 13, 2016 -- A newly discovered bacterial protein produced in the zebrafish gut triggers insulin-producing...

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The loss of fertile topsoil from agricultural fields is an economic problem for modern farmers. When runoff water washes topsoil from agricultural...