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Acrolein, a molecule implicated as a metabolic waste product, could be a potential biomarker for multiple sclerosis, researchers report.

Moonshots are hard. Sometimes they take decades, or cost billions of dollars, and sometimes they take human life. Early this week, I jumped in my plane and flew up to the Mojave Spaceport at 5am to cheer with friends and...

This bad habit could raise your risk of serious eye infections and even lead to vision loss.

Study reveals PRRX1 gene expression results in cell cycle arrest and quiescence of oligodendrocyte progenitors, blocking myelin production.

Data breaches, hacked systems and hostage malware are frequently topics of evening news casts--including stories of department store, hospital, government and bank data leaking into unsavory hands--but now a team of engi...

Researchers have identified how alcohol influences dopaminergic and inhibitory neurons in the ventral tegmental area. The findings could help develop new treatments for alcohol dependence.

Researchers, using eye tracking software, report what we look at helps guide our decisions when faced with two visible choices.

Children that are exposed to multiple cats and dogs in their first year of life go on to have lower rates of asthma, hay fever and eczema later in life

A 3D-printed rigid replica of a human hand can play classic tunes on the piano like Jingle Bells without ever moving individual fingers

A team of scientists has for the first time measured the elusive weak interaction between protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom. They had chosen the simplest nucleus consisting of one neutron and one proton for ...

Once upon a time, people thought that electrons and ions always stuck together, living happily ever after. However, under low density of matter or high temperatures, the components of matter are no longer bound together....

A research study on low noise and high-performance transistors led by Suprem Das, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, in collaboration with researchers at Purdue University, was recen...

Imagine a micron-sized ball of fluid enclosed in a thin film, similar to the film in soap bubbles, but made up of molecules resembling liquid crystal. These molecules can lower their overall energy by aligning their dire...

Lola lived 6000 years ago and made glue by chewing birch bark pitch. By analysing DNA left on the pitch we know about her diet, appearance, and ancestry

Recreational marijuana use is becoming increasingly legal across the U.S., but that doesn't mean that it's safe.

Scientific discovery can be achingly slow, but it was moving swiftly in the 1890s. X-rays had been discovered in Germany just a few days before Christmas in 1895. Several months later, while researching these new X-rays,...

Never heard of a querkle or a spiroglyphic? No worries - just get your colouring pens and follow the simple instructions to reveal two iconic images of science

Never heard of a querkle or a spiroglyphic? No worries - just get your colouring pens and follow the simple instructions to reveal two iconic images of science

In a recent study, materials scientists Guojin Liang and his coworkers at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, have developed a self-healing, electroluminescent (EL) device t...

Physicists have proposed an entirely new way to test the quantum superposition principle--the idea that a quantum object can exist in multiple states at the same time. The new test is based on examining the quantum rotat...

Have your kids stopped believing in Santa? You might be more upset than they are. Read this letter from Santa - ghostwritten by a scientist who specializes in imagination and human behavior.

Do you have a PhD in particle physics, astrophysics or accelerator science? Or are you working on one? We want your input! If you have a PhD in particle physics, astrophysics or accelerator science--or if you are a gradu...