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Currently, when a deceased human is discovered, the forensic techniques for estimating time elapsed since death is not very precise. However, in a new study...

Credit: Lindsay Lafreniere If countries abide by the Paris Agreement global warming target of 1.5 degrees Celsius, potential fish catches could increase by six million...

Using powerful new tools, scientists from the RIKEN SPring-8 Center and collaborators have demonstrated how bacteriorhodopsin, a "proton pump", uses light to transport protons across...

Credit: Princeton University In a step that brings silicon-based quantum computers closer to reality, researchers at Princeton University have built a device in which a...

Credit: Walid Saad/Virginia Tech When Superstorm Sandy lashed New Jersey in 2012, Narayan B. Mandayam lost power in his East Brunswick home for five days....

Credit: Kyoto University Proteins twist and contort as they go about their work. And now scientists have found a way to film these nuanced movements,...

Credit: Photo by Mark Currey EUGENE, Ore. -- Dec. 22, 2016 -- University of Oregon biologists have produced a detailed genome of the snakelike gulf...

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Dec. 22, 2016 - Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered the mechanism that cells use to...

ITHACA, NY--The high quality genome sequence of the dry jujube, along with sequences from trees throughout its range, have illuminated the domestication history of this...

December 22, 2016 - People who perceive more discrimination in daily life have higher rates of sleep problems, based on both subjective and objective measures,...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Faster production of advanced, flexible electronics is among the potential benefits of a discovery by researchers at Oregon State University's College of...

Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON -- Despite many successes in treating pediatric cancer, young children remain at high risk for developing severe, long-lasting impairments in...

Credit: University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI--Cancer researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have found an obesity-associated protein's role in leukemia development ..

Credit: RIKEN A new study from the laboratory of Hiroki Ueda at the RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center investigates circadian timekeeping with a novel approach to...

Credit: Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Two researchers at UConn School of Medicine have developed a new hearing test that can identify hearing loss or deficits in...