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

Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins ...

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

Scientists have created micro-robots for sinus infection treatment that can enter the nasal cavity, eliminate bacteria ...

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 ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

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

New biocatalysts can produce useful epoxides from harmful styrene, and do this so selectively that only the desired compounds ...

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

Left to right: Tanvir Chowdhury, Muhammad Shiraz Ahmad, Tom Samuel, Chandrima Kartik, Md Ibnul Rahman Five students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have received grants from the Alabama ...