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The record-breaking robot teaches humans how to play table tennis.

Hold onto your VR headset for this roller-coaster ride.

A new discovery makes an important step in identifying which specific T cells within the diverse army of a person's immune system are best suited to fight cancer.

Bioengineers have developed a new tool to identify RNA-DNA interactions. The tool can provide a full account of all the RNA molecules that interact with a segment of DNA, as well as the locations of all these interaction...

Sometimes cells spit out things we don't want them to -- like medications. Researchers have determined the three-dimensional structure of a tiny pump that expels, among other things, chemotherapy agents. This new knowled...

Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have identified a mechanism that controls the expression of genes regulating the growth of the most aggressive form of medulloblastoma, the most common pediatric brain tumor.

Origami-inspired materials use folds in materials to embed powerful functionality. However, all that folding can be pretty labor intensive. Now, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applie...

People who smoke may metabolise caffeine differently to non-smokers, leaving them needing to drink more to get the same hit from their coffee

In a new, first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found a 700-percent surge in infections caused by bacteria from the Enterobacteriaceae family resistant to multiple kinds of antibiotics among children in the US. These...

A bioinformatics study identifies genetic variants with differing effects on risk of rheumatoid arthritis and schizophrenia.

The Caspian Sea is the Earth's largest inland body of water. But is it a sea or a lake? The definition has international implications.

Dads who looked at a picture of their kids, showed more activity in certain parts of their brains after a boost of oxytocin via a nasal spray.

The artistic techniques used by Vincent van Gogh and Georges Seurat were considered groundbreaking in their day, but a recent discovery in southwestern France shows that people were using similar artistic methods about 3...

What do a flock of starlings, solar flares, traffic jams, the event horizon of a black hole, and the human brain have in common? Each of these systems operates at a critical point, on the boundary dividing order from dis...

Scientists have devised a novel DNA vaccine approach through molecular design to improve the immune responses elicited against one of the most important cancer antigen targets.

Successful results have utilized nanotechnology to improve drug therapies for HIV patients.

Each year, about 2 million people contract leishmaniasis, which results in disfiguring skin ulcers that may take months or years to heal and in rare cases can become metastatic, causing major tissue damage. Now a team of...

In a significant advance in improving the safety of donor stem cell transplants, a major clinical trial has shown that a novel agent can protect against the most common viral infection that patients face after transplant...

Surprise! Guess who survives this ocean encounter?

Never before have businesses been able to build billion-dollar valuations in so little time. Never before have incumbent enterprises been able to go out of business so quickly. Disruption is now commonplace, and augmente...

If an asteroid hits a major city, only 3 per cent of the casualties will be from the crater it forms - most will be from overheated air and high winds

A drone for surveying farmers' fields takes off vertically and then shape-shifts into a plane, making it easier to launch and allowing it to fly for longer