Month: September 2016

Rainer Weiss, the physicist who initially designed the experiment that one year ago first detected gravitational waves, will discuss the ...

Arrays of microparticles are common in many material science and bioengineering applications, but can be tedious to use because of ...

A large, new study shows no evidence that exercise may reduce a woman's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). The ...

A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee researcher is a senior co-author of paper published in the journal Nature Genetics that identifies 17 ...

The mass wood structure and façade has been completed for UBC's Brock Commons student residence -- the world's tallest wood ...

Potentially extremely dangerous realistic rogue waves -- also called as freak waves -- can now be controlled and generated at ...

The first Zika virus-related death in the continental U.S. occurred in June of this year, but even now, months later, ...

Anyone who has taken a photo in a poorly lit restaurant or dim concert venue knows all too well the ...

Many scientists consider graphene to be a wonder material. Now, a team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich ...

An international team of scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to protect against future global pandemics ...

Scientists working in the mid-Atlantic and south-west Indian Ocean have found evidence of microfibers ingested by deep sea animals including ...

Genetically engineered (GE) crops are no different from conventional crops in terms of their risks to human health and the ...

Major League Baseball players have become overwhelmingly overweight and obese during the last quarter century, say health researchers. Credit: Wikipedia ...

A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft shortly before its controlled ...

Hokkaido University researchers have revealed that key sex-determining genes continue to operate in a mammalian species that lacks the Y ...

A new scientific study conducted by a team of leading geneticists has characterized how cells know when to stop translating ...

Wind turbines are known to kill large birds, such as golden eagles, that live nearby. Now there is evidence that ...

Every day 353,000 children are born around the world, a majority of them in developing countries where there is a ...

Despite the fact that influenza leads to more hospitalizations and deaths among children than any other vaccine-preventable disease, parents frequently ...

From scissors and staplers to car keys and cell phones, we pass objects to other people every day. We often ...