Science & Technology

Archaeological researchers have identified human remains as a child, who may have been laid on a bed of down in a Stone Age burial site discovered in Eastern Finland. There may also have been a canid at the child’s feet. It reveals interesting details …

In the field of molecular magnetism, the design of devices with technological applications at the nanoscale –quantum computing, molecular spintronics, magnetic cooling, nanomedicine, high-density information storage, etc.– requires those magnetic mol…

Researchers have developed a three-dimensional model that shows how exposure to cadmium might lead to congenital heart disease. Affecting nearly 40,000 newborns a year, congenital heart disease is the most common type of birth defect in the United Stat…

Diabetes, which affects millions of people worldwide, develops when the body either generates insufficient amounts of the hormone insulin — a hormone that maintains healthy blood sugar — or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces…

A recent experiment provides evidence of a bark beetle species’ agricultural capability. The fruit-tree pinhole borer can suppress the growth of weed fungi and promote food fungi.

Researchers have found that adopting permanent Daylight Savings Time in the United States would reduce deer-vehicle collisions.

Toxicologists have found that the protein p53 continuously protects our cells from tumorigenesis by coordinating important metabolic processes that stabilize their genomes.

Inflammatory reactions in the skin can reduce damage from UV radiation or infections, but can also result in painful symptoms such as sunburn. A recent study has now identified a molecular control which integrates these stress signals.

Researchers have published a comprehensive study on the significance of species differences for the most central cell maintenance mechanisms. The researchers used the brown hare (Lepus europaeus) and the mountain hare (Lepus timidus) as model organisms…

To avoid salt in soil, plants can change their root direction and grow away from saline areas. Researchers helped find out what makes this possible. The discovery changes our understanding of how plants change their shape and direction of growth and ma…

As climate change intensifies summer heat, demand is growing for technologies to cool buildings. Now, researchers report that they have used advanced computing technology and artificial intelligence to design a transparent window coating that could low…

Using DNA from two ancient humans unearthed in two different archaeological sites in northeast Brazil, researchers have unraveled the deep demographic history of South America at the regional level with some surprising results. Not only do they provide…

An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled scientists to solve a centuries-old riddle in the evolution of life on earth, revealing what the first animals to make skeletons looked like.

A research team develops aqueous rechargeable batteries based on zinc anodes. Polymeric artificial interphase to improve battery stability.

A novel metric that estimates our ‘burden,’ or cumulative exposure, to a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals that we encounter in everyday life with potentially adverse health impacts, has been created.

Chemists specializing in nanotechnology draw inspiration from nature to create molecular transporters that optimize the release of therapeutic drugs.