Drinking iced tea may boost cholera risk in endemic countries

After more than a decade of declining cholera incidence, Vietnam faced an increase in cases of…

25 is ‘golden age’ for the ability to make random choices

People's ability to make random choices or mimic a random process, such as coming up with…

Hunting accounts for 83 and 58 percent declines in tropical mammal and bird populations

Hunting is a major threat to wildlife particularly in tropical regions, but a systematic large-scale estimate…

Unveiling how nucleosome repositioning occurs to shed light on genetic diseases

For the first time, researchers have unveiled the three-dimensional structure of an overlapping dinucleosome, a newly…

Harnessing CRISPR for rapid detection of viral and bacterial infection

Researchers have created a version of CRISPR-Cas that can be used to diagnose infections, such as…

Device pulls water from dry air, powered only by the sun

While it's easy to condense water from humid air, machines that harvest water from drier air…

Bacterial supermachine reveals streamlined protein assembly line

There are many processes that take place in cells that are essential for life. Two of…

How nature engineered the original rotary motor

To function properly and propel the bacterium, the flagellum requires all of its components to fit…

Biased bots: Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems

In debates over the future of artificial intelligence, many experts think of the new systems as…

New crispr-based diagnostic platform unveiled

A team of scientists has adapted a CRISPR protein that targets RNA (rather than DNA) as…