Month: May 2016

The significance of grit in improving performance has been greatly overstated, says a psychologist who…

New geologic mapping in the Himalayan mountains of Kashmir between Pakistan and India suggests that…

Astronomers have detected a sub-stellar object that used to be a star, after being consumed…

Scientists have designed a potential cancer therapy that uses a unique strategy to block mTOR,…

Scientists have solved a puzzle of the immune system — how antibodies enter the nervous…

Current rates of climate change could trigger instability in a major Antarctic glacier, ultimately leading…

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. Using state-of-the-art tools, scientists have described a million-atom ‘tail’…

Personal hygiene products such as soaps and toothpastes that contain the antibiotic triclosan do not…

Some anthropologists try to understand how societies and histories construct our identities, and others ask…

A team of chemists has developed a new antibiotic formulation to fight the sometimes deadly…