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An international team of experts has produced a "manifesto" setting forth steps to improve the quality of scientific research. "There is a way to perform...

Left: The experimental result (neutron Bragg reflection) in perfect agreement with theoretical predictions (red line) that demonstrated the core-shell structure formed by a binary...

Researchers report that warming from short-lived compounds -- greenhouse gases such as methane, chlorofluorocarbons, or hydrofluorocarbons, that linger in the atmosphere for just a...

The schematic at left shows the design for an experimental transistor made of a semiconductor called beta gallium oxide, which could bring new ultra-efficient...

A UC San Francisco-led study has identified signatures of ethnicity in the genome that appear to reflect an ethnic group's shared culture and environment,...

Image Credit: Flickr/barnyz Methane emissions caused by human activity may have a bigger impact on global warming than previously thought, scientists have found. Research led by...

This image shows a cross section of a kidney. Credit: Holly Fischer/Wikipedia Cells in any organ will die if their blood supply is cut off...

Phylogeny of Retroviruses; genera that include endogenous genomes are marked with an asterisk.Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Retroviruses - the family of viruses that includes HIV...

Illustration of the polar directions in relaxor-ferroelectric solid solutions where a small amount of polar nanoregions embedded in a long-range ferroelectric domain leads to...

Charon, a moon of Pluto. When Charon is positioned between the sun and Pluto, Georgia Tech research indicates that the moon can significantly reduce...

new study suggest that factors contributing to early birth might also impact the brain's development in the womb, leading to significant neurodevelopmental disorders, such...