Despite brutal cold and lingering darkness, life in the frigid waters off Alaska does not grind to a halt in the winter as scientists previously suspected….
In their new study, published in the Feb. 2 online edition of the journal Nano Letters, the researchers developed a new tool to determine the orientation of…
University of California, Berkeley, chemists are reimagining catalysts in ways that could have a profound impact on the chemical industry as well as on the…
Organic materials chemist Shawn Dirk focuses a projector during work on neural interfaces, which are aimed at improving amputees’ control over prosthetics with…
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found new evidence to explain how cholesteryl…
Transplantation of human ovarian cancer cells that were molecularly engineered to have a reduced expression of OGFr, into immunocompromised mice resulted in…
The ability to anticipate future events allows us to plan and exert control over our lives, but it may also contribute to stress-related increased risk for the…
If you are looking for a particular object — say a yellow pencil — on a cluttered desk, how does your brain work to visually locate it?For the first time, a…
The scientists aim to determine why some people suffer serious illness and even death when infected with influenza while others suffer only mild to moderate…
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have coaxed gold into nanowires as a way of creating an inexpensive material for detecting poisonous gases found in…
They began evolving into different species – despite the fact that they still encountered one another in their acidic, boiling habitat and even exchanged some…
Although this bat is similar to the species Hipposideros armiger, differences in acoustics, size, and DNA between these bats led to the identification of the…
Johns Hopkins and National Taiwan University researchers have discovered more details about how an energy sensing “thermostat” protein determines whether cells…
Cuttlefish and their colourblind cousins, squid and octopus, see aspects of light – including polarized light – that are invisible to humans, giving them a…
They found that in mice in which they had removed the c-Maf gene in the nerve cells, touch sensation is impaired. This similarly applies to human carriers of a…
The study is set for publication the week of Feb. 20 in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”Many disease-causing microbes…
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