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Credit: Graphic by Juan Perilla CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- It took two years on a supercomputer to simulate 1.2 microseconds in ...

Robotics-based study provides insight into predator-prey interactions

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 19, 2017 -- Researchers have recently gained advanced understanding of a variety of processes through the information-theoretic ...

UBC researchers test 3-D-printed water quality sensor

Credit: UBC Okanagan Researchers at UBC's Okanagan campus have designed a tiny device --built using a 3D printer--that can monitor ...

Does having a sibling with autism affect a child’s language and motor skills?

A review of published studies suggests that infants who have siblings with autism spectrum disorder may have less advanced linguistic ...

Brains are more plastic than we thought

Credit: Pack Lab Practice might not always make perfect, but it's essential for learning a sport or a musical instrument. ...

Indestructible virus yields secret to creating incredibly durable materials

Credit: MANDATORY CREDIT: Courtesy the study authors/eLife It's like the Superman of viruses, astonishingly tough and able to survive in ...

Supramolecular materials with a time switch

Credit: Boekhoven Lab / TUM Materials that assemble themselves and then simply disappear at the end of their lifetime are ...

Goodbye HERA, hello sleep

Credit: Credit: NASA After 45 days in NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA), the four-man crew can hardly hold their ...

Why are dogs such doting companions? It’s in their genes

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers have identified a genetic difference in domesticated dogs and wolves that could explain the canines' contrasting ...

Replacing a palatable high-fat diet with low fat food causes withdrawal-like symptoms in mice

Researchers have found that mice fed a palatable high-fat diet experience stress responses that resemble drug withdrawal when their food ...

New insights into complex processes

Credit: Photo: team Gessler The blood-brain barrier is a crucial protection mechanism: It is a highly selective physical barrier that ...

Antibiotic insight may help in battle against bacterial resistance

Credit: Monash University Bacteria or 'superbugs' that have adapted to resist multiple antibiotics are responsible for around 700,000 deaths globally ...

New gel coatings may lead to better catheters and condoms

Catheters, intravenous lines, and other types of surgical tubing are a medical necessity for managing a wide range of diseases. ...

Combining genomics with farmers’ traditional knowledge to improve wheat production

The key to produce better crops to meet the needs of the growing world's population may lie in combining the ...

Researchers look inside dangerous blood clots with optical clearing technique

Credit: Jeremiah J. Zartman, University of Notre Dame WASHINGTON --A new technique that makes blood clots optically clear is allowing ...

Black light helps diagnose common skin problem found in pregnant women

BOSTON- Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that using a black ...

Comparing algorithms that search for cancer mutations

Credit: Bil Zelman Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) has undertaken the first-ever comparative analysis of a newly emerging ...

Nipple-sparing mastectomy has low rate of breast cancer recurrence

CHICAGO (July 17, 2017): Women with breast cancer who undergo nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) have a low rate of the cancer ...

DOE funds Center for Bioenergy Innovation at ORNL to accelerate biofuels, bioproducts research