( Crossposted from Fight Aging! ) Engineering might be regarded as the process of production of working technology in the absence of complete knowledge - the strategies...

IT CAN create a buzz around an up-and-coming rock band, and is great for reuniting with friends from college. But can it help investigate the causes and treatment...

Researchers examined the effects green tea polyphenols (GTP), administered through drinking water, on rats who were intermittently deprived of oxygen during 12-hour...

Physicist Bram Hoex and colleagues at Eindhoven University of Technology, together with the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, have improved the efficiency of an important...

Biofuel from plants could be a solution to the looming depletion of cheap oil, but making it out of food crops poses problems that are brought into sharp resolve...

LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (CNN) -- Give Brad Williams a date, and he can usually tell you not only what he was doing but what world events happened that day. He can do...

New research appearing in the May issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that being put in a low-power...

The human race was divided into two separate groups within Africa for as much as half of its existence, says a Tel Aviv University mathematician. Climate change,...

Early-stage tumors are often too small to see with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Now, a team of researchers has developed magnetic "nanoworm" particles...

By employing a trick normally used to cool high-performance computer chips, IBM researchers have found a way to make concentrated photovoltaic cells that are more...

Alzheimer's disease begins to damage the brain years before the first symptoms appear. Scientists are furiously searching for a way of picking up the devastating...

Huang, who comes from humble roots as the son of farmers in rural China, has invented a new transistor that uses a compound material known as gallium nitride (GaN),...

New research shows that formic acid could be used as a safe, easy-to-transport source of hydrogen for fuel cells. Matthias Beller and his colleagues at the Leibniz...

n implantable device that uses electrical signals to block the vagus nerve, which helps regulate digestion, has shown early success in clinical trials. The experimental...

PASADENA, Calif.--Studies of the brains of blind persons whose sight was partially restored later in life have produced a compelling example of the brain's ability...

A research team from the Department of Electricity and Electronics at the University of the Basque Country's Faculty of Science and Technology in Leioa, led by Victor...

Leicester scientist explains how radio waves traveling over the sea can have enhanced signal strengths. Read more...

Researchers at NIST have reported a new technique to sort batches of carbon nanotubes by length using high-speed centrifuges. The technique should be easy to scale...

Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have discovered a fundamental component of the process that regulates memory formation....

A study investigating aging in mice has found that hormonal changes that occur when mice eat significantly less may help explain an already established phenomenon:...

Can a prize designed for the high-tech challenge of helping to get people into space be applied to solving low-tech, down-to-Earth problems of life and death? Pose...

A decade ago, when the Wharton Business Plan Competition (BPC) began, the Internet dominated discussions about entrepreneurship. That, of course, was before the...

Genetic differences may explain the greater risk for prostate cancer among Caucasian men compared with Hispanic men, which could help clinicians predict who is more...

Cells that undergo an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition show properties of stem cells, including the ability to self-renew. In addition, stem cells exhibit properties...

Maxi-K gene therapy may be a safe and effective future option for men whose erectile dysfunction is not treatable with oral therapy. Read more...