A team in Spain is currently testing giant yellow robot fish that can swim for up to 8 hours and detect pollution automatically.
A new study shows how the leading cause of hospital infections is able to acquire resistance to even the strongest of our antibiotics. They make friends with other bacteria.
House mice on the South Atlantic Island of Gough are chewing through baby bird populations.
A new breadbox-sized microscope can image a patient's blood in real-time and give back blood test results without all the hassle of a needle or harmful dyes.
A team of scientists has developed a promising new strategy for "reactivating" genes that cause cancer tumors to shrink and die. The researchers hope that their discovery will aid in the development of an innovative anti-cancer drug that effectively targets unhealthy, cancerous tissue without damagi...
Researchers in Germany are tackling the pesky problem of weeds with a futuristic approach - lasers.
A materials scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it also creates something useful. And, by the way, it releases energy.
An international team of researchers, including a University of Virginia professor, has found that two ink sacs from 160-million-year-old giant cephalopod fossils discovered two years ago in England contain the pigment melanin, and that it is essentially identical to the melanin found in the ink sac...
The plague, bacterial dysentery, and cholera have one thing in common: These dangerous diseases are caused by bacteria which infect their host using a sophisticated injection apparatus. Through needle-like structures, they release molecular agents into their host cell, thereby evading the immune res...
Thin, solar-powered retinal implants being developed at Stanford University offer a promising solution to retinal degeneration.
University of York researchers will play a key role in a new project studying the impact of climate change in Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia.
The Atlantic hurricane season officially starts June 1, but the 2012 season's first storm arrived a little early. On May 19, 2012, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that Tropical Storm Alberto had formed off the South Carolina coast. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ...
