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These images show a mesostructured silicon particle. Left: transmission X-ray microscopy 3D data set of one region, suggesting spongy structures. The purple square measures...

Researchers from the University of Zurich and University Children's Hospital Zurich have discovered the first X-chromosome-inherited type of the congenital disease osteogenesis imperfecta, also...

For more than five years, urine and cerebral-spinal fluid samples from patients with Parkinson's disease have been locked in freezers in the NINDS National...

Image credit : WIKICOMMONS Researchers from the University of Nottingham and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have developed a the new type of tooth...

As we age, the function and regenerative abilities of skeletal muscles deteriorate, which means it is difficult for the elderly to recover from injury...

Low levels of the stress hormone cortisol are linked to obesity, high levels of fat in the blood and metabolic syndrome among patients with...

This is California as viewed from the International Space Station.Credit: NASA, Stuart Rankin Droughts in California are mainly controlled by wind, not by the amount...

The snow leopard has long been one of the least studied -- and therefore poorly understood -- of the large cats. No longer. Scientists studying...

Minor evolutionary changes could have altered the fates of both Earth and Venus. Credit: Composite image by Arie Wilson Passwaters/Rice University If conditions had been...

An image of Titan's surface, as taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe as it plunged through the moon's thick, orange-brown atmosphere on...

Cistern Spring in Yellowstone National Park is home to the elusive archaeon Nanopusillus acidilobi. Credit: ORNL A microbial partnership thriving in an acidic hot spring in...