Month: August 2013

More than 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, with a third of these being children….

Scientists would love to know which forces created our universe some 14 billion years ago. How…

The largest genome-wide study of its kind has determined how much five major mental illnesses…

An international consortium has shown for the first time evidence of substantial overlap of genetic…

The growth of deadly plaque inside the walls of arteries may not happen as scientists…

A terahertz laser makes it possible to control a material’s magnetization at a timescale of…

The Greenland ice sheet is melting from below, caused by a high heat flow from…

Computer simulations have revealed how the electrical conductivity of many materials increases with a strong…

A decade ago, gene expression seemed so straightforward: genes were either switched on or off….

Researchers have identified two new genes and implicated 25 distinct mutations in serious forms of…