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In recent decades, larval fruit flies have generally been considered as a promising model to examine neural locomotor circuits. Drosophila larval locomotion offers a valuable...

(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) ) Professor Britta Nestler of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is granted the 2017 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German...

Credit: Clare McLean A preliminary study comparing two commercially available, next-generation genetic sequencing tests in the same cancer patients shows results can differ widely. The...

Credit: University of Warwick Toys controlled with the power of thoughts could become must-have gifts Warwick research connects human mind with electronic devices Sensors in...

Credit: Image courtesy Peter Allen. From laptops to cellphones, today's technology advances through the ever-increasing speed at which electric charges are directed through circuits. Similarly..

One way to handle big data is to shrink it. If you can identify a small subset of your data set that preserves its salient...

Loading video... Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - A chip developed by mechanical engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) can trap and identify...

Credit: Chandra/Harvard When astronomers and astrophysicists observe flashes of light in the dark sky, they assume they have seen a supernova. Possibly a star has...

A researcher in Germany is studying why fish sometimes smells 'fishy' and why customers often smell other aromas when they buy fish. Mohamed Mahmoud, doctoral...

Researchers from the Laboratory for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, in cooperation with colleagues from the University of Washington, have...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2016 -- Cooks around the world prize their cast-iron cookware, which has many advantages over its aluminum...

Credit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford News Service Scientists have spent decades searching for a safe alternative to the flammable liquid electrolytes used in lithium-ion batteries. Now Stanford...

Newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) -- a common virus in the herpes family -- may have an increased risk of developing acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL),...

It is known from previous research that the ER-beta estrogen receptor often has a protective effect. A new study from Lund University in Sweden has...

New cancer therapies harness the immune system to fight tumors. One of the main principles behind these therapies is to find out precisely which molecules...