Many studies on various infectious diseases have shown that roads impact the spread of disease, however this is the first known study to show that roads also…
The Bolshoi supercomputer simulation, the most accurate and detailed large cosmological simulation run to date, gives physicists and astronomers a powerful new…
A novel technique that enables scientists to measure and document tumor-inducing changes in DNA is providing new insight into the earliest events involved in…
Through the identification of a gene's impact on a signaling pathway, scientists at Children's National Medical Center continue to make progress in…
Now, University of Missouri researchers are examining the use of propranolol (a drug used to treat high blood pressure and control heart rate as well as to…
Its surface material composition differs in important ways from both those of the other terrestrial planets and expectations prior to the MESSENGER mission,…
By bouncing sound waves off objects, including the bugs that are their main diet, bats can produce an accurate representation of their environment in total…
A Rice laboratory led by chemist Stephan Link has discovered a way to use liquid crystals to control light scattered from gold nanorods. The researchers use…
Principal investigators of the study, “Structural basis of RNA recognition and activation by innate immune receptor RIG-I,” chosen for advanced online…
Harsh living conditions caused by major fluctuations in the carbon content and sea levels, overacidification and oxygen deficiency in the seas triggered the…
Computational models can assess the evolving needs of the vaccine supply chain – or the series of steps required to get a vaccine from the manufacturer to the…
The protein, called PTK6, is found in normal skin and gut cells — and in cancerous, but not normal, breast tissue.”Our research has primarily focused on the…
Ever wondered why you wake up in the morning —- even when the alarm clock isn't making jarring noises? Wonder no more. Researchers at the Salk Institute for…
Patients being treated for chronic hepatitis C become less likely to take their medications over time, according to a new study from the Perelman School of…
According to researchers from Charles Darwin University in Australia, tree frogs often plop themselves down outside on cool nights during the dry season in…
Ben Franklin was right, at least on the healthy part. “Early to bed and early to rise” appears to have helped a cross-section of early-bird Australian youths…