Eye-dwelling bacteria help mice fight off invading pathogens

The surface of the eye is one of the most inhospitable environments for microbes in mammals…

Academic motivation suffers when economic mobility seems out of reach

High school and college students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds are much less motivated to…

Most comprehensive database on past global changes is online

Climate scientists will now be able to more accurately study the pattern and causes of global…

LHC experiments delve deeper into precision

The world’s particle physics community is meeting this week in Venice (Italy) for the EPS International…

Erratic time perception in schizophrenia

A meta-analysis investigates time perception and temporal information processing in patients with schizophrenia on the basis…

Warm winter events in Arctic becoming more frequent, lasting longer

Arctic winter warming events -- winter days where temperatures peak above 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 10…

High prevalence of antibiotic resistance in Kenya

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most significant global public health problems in many developing countries.…

Marine vessels are unsuspecting hosts of invasive species

Ships play an unknowing but dominant role in introducing and dispersing tough-shelled non-indigenous organisms into new…

Better than Star Wars: Chemistry discovery yields 3-D table-top objects crafted from light

A scientist's childhood dream of 3-D projections like those he saw in a Star Wars movie…

Spiky ferrofluid thrusters can move satellites

Once launched into low-Earth orbit, a small satellite needs propulsion. Electrospray uses spiky, needle-like jets of…