Month: October 2015

Most materials swell when warm, and shrink when cool. But some weird materials do the…

Cigarette smoking and heavy alcohol use cause epigenetic changes to DNA that reflect accelerated biological…

Scientists have described ancient water flows and lakes on Mars, and what this might mean…

While the cleaning of car exhausts is among the best known applications of catalytic processes,…

What has previously been known as good cholesterol — high density lipoprotein — has now…

New discoveries at the cellular and molecular levels have been made about how the eye…

Researchers have been able to watch the interior cells of a plant synthesize cellulose for…

Use of an iPad app that fosters parent-child interactions around math markedly increases children’s math…

A life-sized artificial human lung is the first diagnostic tool for understanding in real time…

New research gives researchers a unique glimpse at how humans develop an ability to use…