Month: January 2015

A sudden jump in the number of lightning strikes inside a garden-variety thunderstorm might soon…

Following cancer prevention guidelines from the American Cancer Society may modestly reduce your overall risk…

Engineering students are field-testing their foot-powered cell phone charger in rural villages of the Kingdom…

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that flu activity is “high” or “widespread” in…

Better physical functioning — basic and complex activities considered essential for maintaining independence — is…

Even with modern genomewide analysis techniques, it has proven difficult to identify genetic factors affecting…

Researchers have found out how a protein crucial to learning works: by removing a biochemical…

A novel approach to creating inhalable vaccines using nanoparticles has been uncovered by researchers, showing…

Life processes depend fundamentally on phenomena occurring on the membranes separating cells from their environment….

Since the discovery of how DNA encodes genetic information, most research on the evolution of…