Engineers develop low-cost, flexible terahertz radiation source for fast, non-invasive screening

Scientists have successfully developed flexible, high performance and low-power driven terahertz (THz) emitters that could be…

How stressful will a trip to Mars be on the human body?

Preliminary research results for the NASA Twins Study debuted at NASA's Human Research Program's annual Investigators'…

Engineered intrinsically disordered proteins provide biomedical insights

Biomedical researchers have engineered the first examples of biomimetic structures composed from a mysterious class of…

Scientists Uncover Possible Therapeutic Targets for Rare Autism Spectrum Disorder

Researchers have uncovered 30 genes that could, one day, serve as therapeutic targets to reverse Rett…

Genomic tools for species discovery inflate estimates of species numbers, biologists contend

Increasingly popular techniques that infer species boundaries in animals and plants solely by analyzing genetic differences…

A rusty green early ocean?

How were Earth's solid deposits of iron ore created? One researchers suggests that, billions of years…

White blood cells get pushy to reach infection

How do white blood cells -- the immune cells that race to the sites of infection…

Programmed proteins might help prevent malaria

Malaria is still a global scourge, killing mostly children in tropical regions. Developing an affordable vaccine…

Simple intervention proves effective in reducing suicide among active-duty soldiers

A new study's findings show there was a 75 percent reduction in suicide attempts among participants…

Very low levels of bad cholesterol well-tolerated in heart disease patients

Heart disease patients taking PCSK9 inhibitors to achieve very low levels of cholesterol do not experience…