Chemistry AND Physics

Dementia and other tauopathies, most notably Alzheimer's disease, embody a class of neurodegenerative diseases associated with the aggregation of the...

Reliable information about the structure of pharmaceutical compounds is important for patient safety, for the development of related drugs and...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - University of Louisville School of Dentistry researchers have found a bacterial species responsible for gum disease, Porphyromonas...

Credit: Daniel Olal/MDC Bank voles are small rodents that are not dangerous by themselves, but their excreta can contain one...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory will be the home of a new research consortium for the discovery and...

AMHERST, Mass. - In a new paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Oxford University describe a new,...

If you imagine a cell as a house, protein production can be a fairly relatable engineering feat. A master blueprint...

In a small, placebo-controlled clinical trial, Johns Hopkins physicians report that the antidepressant paroxetine modestly improves decision-making and reaction time,...

Credit: Alejandro Posada/ Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart This news release is available in German. Ciliates can do...

Surprisingly complex interactions between neurotransmitter receptors and other key proteins help explain the brain's ability to process information with lightning...

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Sailing history is rife with tales of monster-sized rogue waves — huge, towering walls of water that seemingly rise up...

Control over obesity and diabetes may be one step closer thanks to a Hiroshima University study in fat tissue. The...

Credit: IBS The brain is an enormous network of communication, containing over 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons, with branches...

When is a solid not a real solid? When it's a lattice of ultracold atoms held in place not by...

Data presented by the biotech company Athersys indicate that stroke patients treated by an adult stem cell therapy called MultiStem®...

Scientists have now described the engineering of a bright red fluorescent protein-based voltage indicator, providing pathways to understanding complex neurological...

ANN ARBOR -- Scientists at the University of Michigan have found evidence that some carbon nanomaterials can enter into immune...

Health officials, drug companies, governments and the public are scrambling to understand and combat the Zika virus. The virus was...

Scotch tape is a staple in Pablo Jarillo-Herrero’s lab. The sticky material is surprisingly effective at isolating graphene, a delicate...