Their findings, reported online in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal unique interactions between biological molecules that…
Now, researchers at the University of Georgia have found that extreme low temperatures affect certain corals in much the same way that high temperatures do,…
“I can go to the Franklin Mountains in West Texas and stand next to what was once part of Coats Land in Antarctica,” said Staci Loewy, a geochemist at…
It’s also the clothes you wear, the music you like, the school you go to—and has a strong influence on how you interact with others, according to the authors…
The use of Acute Care Emergency Surgical Service (ACCESS) in emergency departments (EDs) can lead to significant reductions in key patient measures, such as…
Dinesh Agrawal, professor of materials, and Jiping Cheng, senior research associate in the Penn State Materials Research Institute, are working with Penn State…
“Research and science parks help grow local, high-tech companies while attracting new ones to the region,” said Harold Strong, Jr., Association of University…
New computer modeling work shows that by 2100, if society wants to limit carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to less than 40 percent higher than it is today, the…
Highly reactive radicals are atoms, molecules or ions frantically trying to become something else. Their lifetimes are measured in fractions of seconds and…
It’s a pressing question as gray wolves were removed from the federal endangered species list in some western states this past May and are poised for delisting…
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are seen as a promising replacement for the liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) used in many flat-screen televisions because…
Silicon is an ideal platform for integrated photonic circuits because the material is cheap and readily available. Silicon chips with an integrated laser…
It seems we do, at least according to the results of a study by a team of Johns Hopkins University psychologists. Led by Melissa Libertus, a post-doctoral…
But that’s not all. What’s unusual about this new, nanoscale, X-ray microscope is that the images are not produced by a lens, but by means of a powerful…
In what represents an important step toward curing HIV, a USC scientist has created a virus that hunts down HIV-infected cells.Dr. Pin Wang's lentiviral vector…
This study marks the first discovery of so-called “good” prion-like proteins in human cells and the first to find such proteins involved in innate immunity:…