How Stress Causes Gray Hair: Harvard Scientists Solve a Biological Puzzle
Harvard Scientists Uncover Link Between the Nervous System and Stem Cells That Regenerate Pigment When Marie Antoinette was captured during the French Revolution, her hair…
Harvard Scientists Uncover Link Between the Nervous System and Stem Cells That Regenerate Pigment When Marie Antoinette was captured during the French Revolution, her hair…
When Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida in September 2017, the Category 5 storm offered a team of wildlife researchers a first-ever opportunity to observe…
University of Vermont and MITRE studies show that near-light-speed differences in stock prices may be exploited by traders with faster information systems. Imagine standing in…
Mathematicians, physicists, and materials experts might not spring to mind as the first people to consult about whether you are brewing your coffee right. But…
Diving 200 feet (60 meters) under the ocean surface to conduct scientific research can lead to some interesting places. For University of Texas at Austin…
Emerging viral infections — from bird flu to Ebola to Zika infections — pose major threats to global public health, and understanding their origins can…
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) program uses the patterns of cosmic structure as seen in the spatial distribution of hundreds of millions of galaxies to…
Without their keen sense of smell, mosquitoes wouldn’t get very far. They rely on this sense to find a host to bite and spots to…
New Research Finds Earth’s Oldest Asteroid Strike Linked to ‘Big Thaw’ Curtin University scientists have discovered Earth’s oldest asteroid strike occurred at Yarrabubba, in outback…
In a discovery that has implications for our understanding of the air we breathe, University of California, Irvine (UCI) chemists report that they’ve found nanoscale…
Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new type of smart contact lenses that can prevent dry eyes. The self-moisturizing system, which is described in…
Enceladus’ subsurface ocean composition hints at habitable conditions. A Southwest Research Institute team developed a new geochemical model that reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) from…
A new, extremely efficient source of terahertz radiation has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna): Lasers turn air into plasma, thereby producing terahertz rays for…
Non-flammable, cost-efficient, and effective battery developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As the lithium-ion batteries that power most phones, laptops, and electric vehicles become increasingly fast-charging…
Chemistry finding could make solar energy more efficient as researchers have found a way to harness the entire spectrum of sunlight. Scientists for the first…
Researchers have found how an antibiotic used to treat a debilitating gut infection stays put inside the body giving it time to effectively treat the…
A team of researchers found that using the origami-inspired art of paper cutting and folding, it is possible to create super strong models from lightweight…
In the Pacific Northwest, the range expansion of Barred Owls has contributed to a conservation crisis for Northern Spotted Owls, which are being displaced from…