For decades, researchers seeking biometric identifiers other than fingerprints believed that irises were a strong biometric because their one-of-a-kind texture…
A 100% genetic match for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been discovered in an insect-eating bat in close proximity to the first known case of the…
Reed Cartwright, a researcher at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, along with colleagues at ASU, Washington University and the Wellcome Trust…
Learning about the nature of tissue stem cells can help scientists understand exactly how our organs are built, and why some organs generate cancer frequently,…
Which technological advancements can we expect to see in the field of medical technology? How well can diagnosis and therapy be customized for each patient?…
Researchers addressed this question in an international study. This investigated the degree of genetic commonality between five psychiatric illnesses that are…
In the search for clean, green sustainable energy sources to meet human needs for generations to come, perhaps no technology matches the ultimate potential of…
When the wing of an aircraft “feels” a threatening load or metal foams become as lightweight and solid as our bones, you know materials scientists had their…
Scientists from UC San Francisco have identified a new way to manipulate the immune system that may keep it from attacking the body’s own molecules in…
The search for the cause of multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease that affects up to a half million people in the United States, has confounded…
The research was carried out by the University of Exeter and the University of Cambridge and is published in the journal PLOS ONE. Moths with high contrast…
The team from Imperial College London, the University of Kent and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered that when icy comets collide into a…
Reliable quantum computing would make it possible to solve certain types of extremely complex technological problems millions of times faster than today’s most…
The research, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is a glimpse into RNA, found in all life on Earth, and could advance a…
The two computer scientists are guest speakers at the 1. Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), a week-long symposium for and by a number of the best contemporary…
Understanding the nature of these radiation belts and how they swell and shrink over time is an integral part of interpreting, and perhaps someday predicting,…
“One of the most exciting results from this very first solid sample ingested by Curiosity is the high percentage of water in the soil,” said Laurie Leshin,…
Many people with MS start using some kind of mobility aid — cane, walker, scooter or wheelchair — by 45 or 50, and those with the most severe cases are…
The researchers said the mapping of the abnormal regions gives cancer scientists a starting point from which to search for as-yet undiscovered oncogenes and…
Geologists and geophysicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), discovered traces of large ice sheets from…