Fire Research Leads to Better Models to Predict How Wildfires Burn [Video]
Chemistry of plants makes a big difference in how quickly they burn. As fires throughout Utah have demonstrated over the last few weeks, fire season…
Chemistry of plants makes a big difference in how quickly they burn. As fires throughout Utah have demonstrated over the last few weeks, fire season…
The presence of fat-laden cells in the lung could assist with diagnosis and understanding the cause of the disease. Doctors have identified a previously unrecognized characteristic of the vaping-related respiratory…
Salk research explains how plants are able to efficiently manufacture the compounds they use to adapt to stress. Plants can do many amazing things. Among…
Sum of three cubes for 42 finally solved – using real life planetary computer. Hot on the heels of the ground-breaking ‘Sum-Of-Three-Cubes’ solution for the…
By coupling magnetic behavior to a superconducting circuit, Argonne scientists pave the way for quantum information systems. Quantum computing promises to revolutionize the ways in…
Quasars are the Universe’s brightest beacons; shining with magnitudes more luminosity than entire galaxies and the stars they contain. In the center of this light,…
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine provide a molecular ‘atlas’ of animal development—a molecular…
Subtle features of social network structure can lead to biased outcomes in group decisions. Electoral gerrymandering, in which political districts are drawn to favor one…
Many voters today seem to live in partisan bubbles, where they receive only partial information about how others feel regarding political issues. Now, an experiment…
The dinosaur, whose nearly complete skeleton was unearthed from 72 million-year-old marine deposits in Mukawa Town in northern Japan, belongs to a new genus and…
When Kīlauea Volcano erupted in 2018, it injected millions of cubic feet of molten lava into the nutrient-poor waters off Hawaiʻi Island. The lava-impacted seawater…
Researchers have engineered gold-based molecules that target cancer cells and leave healthy cells unharmed, in a critical step towards precision cancer drugs with fewer toxic…
Patients on chronic opioid prescriptions who came off opioids were three times more likely to die of an overdose in the years that followed, a…
Why neuron-like implants could offer a better way to treat Alzheimer’s disease or post-traumatic stress disorder, control prosthetics, or even enhance cognitive abilities. Recently, Charles…
Prior research identified four distinct dating trajectories from 6th to 12th grade: Low, Increasing, High Middle School, and Frequent. In a new study published in…
Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs on the planet, had an air conditioner in its head, suggest scientists from the University of Missouri,…
A simple and sensitive urine test developed by Imperial and MIT engineers has produced a color change in urine to signal growing tumors in mice….
Pops of bright blue and green in this image of the Fireworks galaxy (NGC 6946) show the locations of extremely bright sources of X-ray light…