A well-preserved tomb of an ancient Mayan king has been discovered in Guatemala by a team of archaeologists led by Brown University’s Stephen Houston. The tomb…
“Even though baseball is a passion of many people and our national pastime, there is very little information about the epidemiology, characteristics or…
Sensory experience changes the way humans see the world during early postnatal development. Now, an international team of researchers, including Tadaharu…
Researchers at RIKEN and Keio University have shown that even the most widely-varying species of plants share remarkable similarities in the composition of…
As summer sea surface temperatures have remained about 1.5 degrees Celsius above ambient over the last 10 years, growth of the coral, Diploastrea heliopora,…
Physicists will soon have a better measure of the age of our galaxy, thanks to experiments described in a trio of papers appearing in the journal Physical…
New research indicates that the interactions of microscopic organisms around a particular organic material may alter the chemical properties of the…
Investigators have found that fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) males — in which the activity of an Alzheimer’s disease protein is reduced by 50 percent –…
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) has approved and released an evidence-based clinical practice guideline on “The Treatment of Glenohumeral…
Vitamin D surfaces as a news topic every few months. How much daily vitamin D should a person get? Is it possible to have too much of it? Is exposure to the…
Quasars, which are extraordinary luminous objects in the distant universe, are thought to be powered by supermassive black holes in the cores of galaxies. A…
The goal of the study was to compare whole-transcriptome, mucosal gene expression in Candida albicans (a parasitic fungus that can infect the mouth) associated…
Herschel was launched on 14 May 2009, and progress since launch with various webreleases can be followed on the Herschel Science Centre Latest News webpage at…
For years, researchers worldwide have attempted to create genetically altered mosquitoes that cannot infect humans with malaria. Those efforts fell short…
Integrated chips are made by wiring multiple transistors and electronic components together to perform complex functions. The connections between chips and…
An iconic photo snapped in the tragedy's aftermath speaks the proverbial thousand words: amid a landscape devastated, and houses crushed like eggshells, one…