Scientists and engineers from around the world will gather on the shores of Lake Ontario in Rochester, N.Y. next week to discuss some of the latest…

By the age of five, most people have been exposed to the virus, called reovirus. For some, it can trigger brief episodes of coughing or diarrhea while many…

At this point it could be too late to start medication, because the disease is now believed to begin decades before a patient displays clear symptoms. So how…

Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and collaborators have shown that a computer-based text-searching tool is capable of…

In addition to genetic susceptibility, it is generally accepted that environmental factors play important roles in triggering disease, with virus infection…

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have taken a less-is-more approach to designing effective drug treatments that are precisely tailored to disease-causing pathogens,…

An international team of scientists led by Rutgers University astrophysicists have discovered 10 new massive galaxy clusters from a large, uniform survey of…

Researchers have now discovered that this species contains skin toxins of the alkaloid class of compounds which probably constitute a fefence mechanism against…

Many of nature’s most fascinating phenomena involve various forms of fluid flow, and scientists who study fluid dynamics investigate everything from the way…

The new results go further to describe a violation of a fundamental symmetry of the universe asserting that particles of antimatter behave in the same way as…

Using pests as part of an insect birth control program helps to get rid of them, UA researchers find. A new approach that combines the planting of…

The rare condition causes some people to see sounds or written words as colours, or experience tastes, smells and shapes in linked combinations. Famous…

The animals probably plumb the depths to avoid predators, search for prey and avoid heat in the tropics. However it wasn’t clear how these mammoth reptiles…

The rating system, Graph500, tests supercomputers for their skill in analyzing large, graph-based structures that link the huge numbers of data points present…

Today, researchers who found the first hypervelocity stars escaping the Milky Way announced that their search also turned up a dozen double-star systems. Half…

Hunted for centuries for their oil (and until the 1970s for dog food), there may be only 160 of these gentle giants in the population found off Nova Scotia. In…

Many studies support the assertion that moderate drinking is beneficial when it comes to cardiovascular health, and for the first time scientists have…

A milestone in the history of renewable energy occurred in the year 2008 when more new wind-turbine power generation capacity was added in the U.S. than new…

From a baby’s first blurted “bowl!'” for the word “ball” to the whispered goodbye of a beloved elder, the capacity for complex vocalizations is one of…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a medical imaging technology used to image organs and soft tissues, may hold the key to improving the efficiency of jet…