When a drummer hits a drum, the surface vibrates and creates sound—a signal we recognize as music. But once those vibrations ...

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

The carbon that is a key component of the human body—and all other lifeforms on Earth—may have ... a team of researchers have demonstrated that carbon—along with other star-formed atoms—takes an ...

Scientists discover that fasting activates the production of ketone bodies, molecules that eliminate harmful proteins and ...

Doctoral students have described a new selective biocatalyst in an interdisciplinary and inter-university collaboration. The ...

Policymakers must focus on specific sectors, test new ideas through public-private partnerships and present practical ...

Cells, including those in the human body, might have the ability to "learn," a capability once thought to be exclusive to ...

Now, let’s take a closer look at X-rays. This technology has been around much longer than MRI. It dates back to the late 1800s. For quite some time, it was the only non-invasive way for doctors to ...

Recent physics studies have found that light can sometimes flow in unexpected ways, behaving like a so-called "superfluid." ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...