Month: June 2012

Countries like Brazil are using data from NASA satellites to track and measure their forests…

What does a robot feel when it touches something? Little or nothing until now. Specially…

Researchers have unlocked the structure of a key protein that, when sensing certain viruses and…

A Chicago woman is the first Midwest patient to receive a successful stem cell transplant…

Small, shifting human populations existed in the Amazon before the arrival of Europeans, with little…

Loneliness in individuals over 60 years of age appears associated with increased risk of functional…

Living alone was associated with an increased risk of death and cardiovascular death in an…

Scientists have turned to the simple sponge to find clues about the evolution of the…

Scientists are racing to sequence DNA faster and cheaper than ever by passing strands of…

A new study characterizes an influential network within the brain as the “backbone” for global…