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Cambridge, Mass. - December 21, 2016 - When Regina Dugan, Facebook's Vice President of Engineering and head of Building 8, spoke at Harvard University on...

Credit: Qing Wang, Penn State A new concept in energy harvesting could capture energy currently wasted due to its characteristic low frequency and use it...

Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame Research in the laboratory of Rebecca Wingert, the Gallagher Family Associate Professor of Adult Stem Cell Research in the...

Credit: David Kilper/Washington University As a species we're so brain-proud it doesn't occur to most of us to ask whether a big brain has disadvantages...

Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine that includes Crohn's disease and...

UC Santa Barbara neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik has been studying the brain for decades. His UC Santa Barbara neurobiology lab focuses on the evolution of...

More than 20 small businesses funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will showcase their early stage technologies at the 2017 CES, a global conference...

Credit: University of Pennsylvania Mitochondria, the mighty energy factories of the cell, often malfunction in cancer, as well as in other conditions such as aging,...

Credit: NOAA NOAA Fisheries is pleased to announce $8 million in recommended funding for 11 shovel-ready coastal resiliency projects in various sites across the country....

Credit: UTA Kytai Nguyen, a professor in the Bioengineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, has been named a Fellow of the American...

Credit: Thorin Jonsson The eggs of some butterfly and moth species vary to give females control over the paternity of their offspring, according to new...

Credit: Jin-sil Choi/ Hsian-Rong Tseng Tattoos aren't just for body art. They can have medical applications, too. Doctors are using them on patients to mark...

Credit: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Nearly half of early stage breast cancer patients considered having double mastectomy and one in...

ecancermedicalscience has published a new Special Issue on digestive cancers in Latin America, bringing together five articles from experts in the region. The incidence and...

Credit: Dr Jianjun Wang The scientists discovered that climate change affects biodiversity most strongly in the most natural environments, as well as the most nutrient...