Engineers at Penn State are blending art and science to create cute, paint-on tattoos capable of recording different ...

Geologists studying some of the planet’s oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, our own species, Homo sapiens, coexisted with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis. Many of us ...

Pangolins, which look like a cross between an anteater and a pinecone, are the most-trafficked mammals in the world. In a new ...

MIT Professor Areg Danagoulian is proposing a way to determine if a satellite orbiting Earth contains a nuclear weapon. He describes his idea for a satellite-based sensor system that could orbit close ...

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Fungi have given medicine some of its biggest breakthroughs, from penicillin to cholesterol-lowering statins, yet most of the ...

Ongoing research reveals that multifloral honey is a promising candidate for protecting human skin cells from premature ageing and cell damage caused by UV radiation, with the potential for developing ...

Ladder-type oligothiophenes are an important class of sulfur-containing π-conjugated molecules. Because their fused, ladder-like structures can support efficient electronic interactions, they are ...

Hotter, drier conditions driven by climate change could nearly double water bills in some cities by mid-century, according to a Stanford-led study. Researchers found that costly drought-resilience ...

Nutritional imbalance during pregnancy can have long-lasting effects on the health status and disease susceptibility of the offspring. As such, high fructose intake through sweetened food and ...