“This research reveals that air pollution may have potential ethical costs that go beyond its well-known toll on health and the environment,” says behavioral…

“There is still a conceptual gap between teaching science and environmental education,” says Dr. Ulrich Dettweiler, Associate Professor of Education at the…

Viruses have their own genetic material and can infect human cells in a very specific manner. They will then reproduce as directed by their own genes but using…

Their findings, just published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), extend the existing theory that so far was…

Plants react much more sensitively to fluctuations in temperature than animals. They are also unable to seek out warmer or cooler locations. “When temperatures…

Our brain never rests completely: Even in situations without noticeable external input thousands of neurons are firing in different parts of the brain, a…

In a heart attack, clots usually lead to persistent circulatory problems in parts of the heart muscle, which then cause heart muscle cells to die. Attempts…

Scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) have managed to control the behavior of individual bacteria by connecting them to a…

A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago shows how amputees can learn to control a robotic arm through electrodes implanted in the brain.

Forests are of great importance to humans: the wood grown in forests is used in our houses for furniture, roof timbers and flooring; forests store carbon from…

First-borns are more likely to graduate from medical training and engineering programs at university, while later-borns are more likely to study journalism and…

That is the implication of a new study which shows for the first time that there is a broad range of differences in people's visual ability and that these…

During a CT analysis, the object under investigation is x-rayed and a detector measures the respective amount of radiation absorbed from various angles….

The VLC technology (also referred as Li-Fi) is a possible alternative to traditional WLAN technology. Data transmission is equally wireless, though not via…

In this sense, a 'valley' refers to the region in an electronic band structure where both electrons and holes are localized, and 'valley polarization' refers…

A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington at Tacoma has developed a novel…