Vaccines remain the best line of defense against deadly pathogens and now Kathryn Sykes and Stephen Johnston, researchers at Arizona State University’s…
Ladybugs and other predatory insects eat crop pests, saving farmers an estimated $4.6 billion a year on insecticides. Non-crop plants provide these predatory…
This year the award goes to Professor Hans-Peter Seidel, head of the Computer Graphics department at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. The Eurographics…
Mainland tiger snakes, which generally max out at 35 inches (89 cm) long, patrol swampy areas in search of frogs, their dietary staple. When sea levels rose…
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who pioneered the use of satellite tags to monitor the migrations of elephant seals have compiled one…
Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have shown that zebrafish could be used to study the underlying causes of psychiatric disorders.The study,…
A collaborative expedition into the deep genetics of prostate cancer has uncovered a distinct subtype of the disease, one that appears to account for up to 15…
“Where else can you go on a Saturday night to count horseshoe crabs?” freshman Will Goldman said.After receiving training in April through the Delaware Bay…
The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of scientists from around the world announced their picks for…
A team of scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., now is developing an instrument that would image and characterize planets beyond…
Intelligent cars made possible by modern navigation and communication technologies are a popular topic with automotive manufacturers and customers alike….
Tafamidis, approved for use in Europe and currently under review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is the first medication approved by a major…
This will help to find extra-solar planets, i.e. planets that are orbiting a star outside our solar-system. By refining this technology it might become…
University of Illinois at Chicago physics professor Anjum Ansari hopes to find some answers, supported by a new five-year, $1.14 million National Science…
A University of Delaware-led research team reports an advance in the June 1 issue of Science that may help astrophysicists more accurately analyze the vast…
Krzysztof Szalewicz, professor of physics and astronomy at UD, was the principal investigator on the National Science Foundation funded research project, which…
Even though a single raindrop can weigh 50 times more than a mosquito, the insect is still able to fly through a downpour.Georgia Tech researchers used…
With Type 2 human diabetes climbing at alarming rates in the United States, researchers are seeking treatments for the disease, which has been linked to…
Perinatal medicine experts have worked hard to find new biomarkers for screening of DS. Dr. Shi he Shao and his co-investigators, from Jiangsu University and…
The precious metal platinum has long been prized for its ability to spur key chemical reactions in a process called catalysis, but at more than $1,000 an…