A team of scientists from Korea and Japan has discovered a new type of crystal that can "breathe"—releasing and absorbing ...

Too much fat can be unhealthy: how fat cells, so-called adipocytes, develop, is crucial for the function of the fat tissue.

For the first time, astrophysicists detected a supernova embedded in a wind rich with silicon, sulfur and argon. Observations suggest the massive star lost its outer hydrogen and helium layers long ...

Blocking brain damage triggered by a glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, may slow the growth of the cancer and allow the brain to keep working better for longer, according to a new study led by ...

When triple-negative breast cancer grows, the fat cells around it seem to shrink.   UCSF researchers have discovered that the cells of these tumors, which are among the deadliest types of breast ...

Anne D’Alleva, the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Connecticut, has been ...

New research finds that Marine Protected Areas can boost the recovery of globally important kelp forests following marine ...

The Tickle Engineering Building at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

As a green sustainable alternative technology, synthesizing nitrate by electrocatalytic nitrogen oxidation reaction (NOR) can ...

Epithelial tissue forms the outermost protective barrier of tissues and organs and is therefore prone to wounds and injuries.

Two almost complete and gapless genomes of the sex-changing central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) are published ...

Texas A&M University engineers have created a “robot in an airbag" they call "RoboBall." This technology is built with plans ...