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Even a small portion of the comprehensive Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations is crammed full of science. About a month ago, the Lawrence Livermore lab posted this gorgeous old poster of the electromagnetic spectrum onto...

Studies in rodents have suggested that the body may mount an immune response and destroy cells derived from iPSCs. New research in monkeys refutes these findings, suggesting that in primates like us, such cells will not ...

How leaf-cutter ants and fungus gardens could provide the model for sustainably producing biofuels.

Contact Lens Trevor Johnston What is it? A real contact lens that can switch between magnifying an image and standard vision. it could be useful for both military personnel and patients with retinal diseases. We built a ...

Google Search Screenshot Google announced today that about a month ago, the company issued a major update to their main search algorithm. It's called Hummingbird, and it reportedly affects 90 percent of searches worldwid...

San Francisco design studio Bot & Dolly created this demonstration of what is almost certainly sorcery a projection mapping system. The project's simply called "Box," and without ruining too much, the studio projects ima...

The relative abundance of rare "words," or codons, in bacterial genes helps control how much of the corresponding protein the bacteria produce. The results could help scientists engineer bacteria more precisely than ever...

A recent study has found that a change in the way police respond to drug-related overdose emergencies could contribute to improved outcomes of the victims and to the communities where overdoses occur. The study found tha...

New materials could lead to actuators on a chip and self-deploying medical devices. Ceramics are not known for their flexibility: they tend to crack under stress. But researchers have just found a way around that problem...

Smell A Rat? Oskila via Wikimedia Commons In Rotterdam, the second-largest city in the Netherlands, rats are more than just scurrying subway pests. They're trained crime fighters. The Dutch police have begun training rat...

Blurred images that are unidentifiable as still pictures become understandable once the images are set in motion. That's because of a phenomenon called "optic flow," which may be especially relevant as a source of visual...

Researchers have pinpointed the precise cellular connections responsible for triggering binge eating. The finding lends insight into a cause for obesity and could lead to treatments for anorexia, bulimia nervosa, and bin...

Human activity is slicing up forests worldwide, and it seems the resulting "islands" of vegetation can go into ecological meltdown much faster than thought     

In a new paper, physician-researchers describe a new tool called the HARM score that reliably measures quality and clinical outcomes for colon and rectal surgery patients. The score is derived from Hospital stay, Readmis...

Scientists have discovered an important process by which special immune cells in the skin help heal wounds. They found that these skin-resident immune cells function as "first responders" to skin injuries in part by prod...

Eighteen months after the close of a child maltreatment investigation, nearly 80 percent of children are still living in the home with their parents or primary caregivers, according to a new report.

The major earthquake that struck Pakistan on Tuesday appears to have spawned a muddy mound off the coast     

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The mood changes of a 'Jekyll-and-Hyde' protein, which sometimes boosts tumour cell growth and at other times suppresses it, have been explained in a new study.

Protein synthesis in nerve cell dendrites underlies long-term memory formation in the brain, among other functions. Knowing how proteins are made to order at the synapse can help researchers better understand how memorie...

A study reveals that a mutation in a gene necessary for the metabolism of folic acid not only impacts the immediate offspring but can also have detrimental health effects on the next several generations.

Becoming obese or remaining lean can depend on the dynamics of the mitochondria, the body's energy-producing "battery," according to two new studies.