Vibrating, cold device enables quick IV insertion while reducing kids’ pain in emergency room

A vibrating device, used with a cold pack, relieves a child’s pain while emergency department caregivers…

Seeing light-to-energy transfer in new solar cell materials

Scientists are now able to capture the moment less than one trillionth of a second a…

Closing in on the secret of possible new enzymes

Chemists have investigated the biological function of patellamides. Patellamides were first isolated in 1981 from the…

Scientists discover a new way to target drug-resistant bacteria

A new class of compounds that inhibit bacterial DNA gyrase has been discovered by a team…

Extreme geothermal activity discovered beneath New Zealand’s Southern Alps

Unusually high temperatures, greater than 100°C, have been found close to Earth’s surface in New Zealand…

Big fish in big trouble in Europe

Many large fish species, including many of the sharks and rays of Europe, are threatened with extinction. Confirming…

2017 hurricane season follows year of extremes

2016 hurricane season started in January and ended 318 days later in late-November. Hurricane Matthew was…

Steep declines in Kauai’s seabird populations, radar reveals

The island of Kauai is home to two endangered seabirds, the Hawaiian Petrel and the Newell's…

Volcanoes: Referees for the life on Earth

At the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, 200 million years ago, some 60% of species living on Earth disappeared.…

Gene finding to eradicate severe blistering disorder of the skin found in dogs

Researchers have identified a novel gene defect that causes a hereditary blistering disorder of the skin,…