The discovery is an important development in the worldwide effort to mimic the way plants make fuel from sunlight, a key step in creating a green energy…
These brain regions belong to a network that is more active when the brain is at rest. The discovery that cells in these regions communicate with each other…
A team of scientists has combined embryological observations, genetic sequencing, and supercomputing to determine that a group of small disk-shaped animals…
A data memory can hardly be any smaller: researchers working with Gerhard Rempe at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have stored quantum…
Doctors have long sought a way to directly measure the brain's temperature without inserting a probe through the skull. Now researchers have developed a way to…
Their findings, which appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), indicate that domesticated rice may have first…
A new protein, called aquaporin-4, is making waves and found to play a key role in brain inflammation, or encephalitis. This discovery is important as the…
The public favors equal custody for children of divorce, according to findings in a pair of studies by Arizona State University researchers that will appear in…
Scientists have discovered that drugs used to treat HIV may also one day become lifesaving drugs targeted at parasitic diseases such as leishmaniasis and…
A joint study by academics in Switzerland, Germany and at Boston University sheds new light on the formation of financial bubbles and crashes. Wild…
The study helps explain why personality has such a strong influence on a person's happiness. The findings suggest that persons with certain personality traits…
These findings are particularly important given growing controversy in the scientific literature about whether subtle differences between iPSCs and ESCs should…
“Hand washing with soap and water is a universally accepted practice for reducing the transmission of potentially pathogenic microorganisms. However, liquid…
Exposure to secondhand smoke, such as a person can get by riding in an enclosed car while someone else smokes, has a direct, measurable impact on the brain—and…
“We like to think of babies as 'ordinary miracles,'” said Victor Bernstein, a research associate at the School of Social Service Administration at the…
The research team, led by Victor Darley-Usmar, Ph.D., professor of pathology at UAB, introduced an antioxidant called mitochondria-targeted ubiquinone, or…
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