Warming climate could increase bacterial impacts on Chesapeake Bay shellfish, recreation

Researchers have found that three common species of Vibrio bacteria in Chesapeake Bay could increase with…

Post heart attack: How can scar tissue be turned back into healthy heart muscle?

Scientists are exploring ways to reprogram scar tissue cells into healthy heart muscle cells, and now…

Near-Earth asteroid CubeSat goes full sail

NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite the size of a shoebox, designed to study asteroids…

Innovative control system paves the way for large scale universal quantum computing

Future quantum computers promise exponential scaling in computing power with linearly increasing number of qubits. However,…

Energy harvested from evaporation could power much of US

In the first evaluation of evaporation as a renewable energy source, researchers find that US lakes…

Quantum communications bend to our needs

The potential for photon entanglement in quantum computing and communications has been known for decades. One…

Potential Zika vaccine protects against pregnancy transmission and testicular damage

For the first time, a research team led has shown that a potential Zika vaccine quickly…

Some marine species more vulnerable to climate change than others

Certain marine species will fare much worse than others as they become more vulnerable to the…

Antibiotics warranted for kids with minor staph infections

The overuse of antibiotics has left some doctors questioning whether to give such drugs to children…

Amount of water in stem cells can determine its fate as fat or bone

Adding or removing water from a stem cell can change the destiny of the cell to…