Obstacles to disease eradication

The realities of subsistence living in a region of Senegal hard hit by schistosomiasis make reinfection…

Wealth can lead to more satisfying life if viewed as a sign of success vs. happiness

A new study found that viewing wealth and material possessions as a sign of success yields…

Our individuality is deeply encrypted in our DNA

Providing a glimpse the hidden workings of evolution, a group of researchers have discovered that embryos…

Airbus Completes Ocean Satellite Sentinel-6A

Airbus has completed the ocean satellite ‘Copernicus Sentinel-6A’, and is now sending it on its first…

At the edge of chaos, powerful new electronics could be created

A phenomenon that is well known from chaos theory was observed in a material for the…

Fragmenting ions and radiation sensitizers

The anti-cancer drug 5-fluorouracil (5FU) acts as a radiosensitizer: it is rapidly taken up into the…

Hardship during the Great Recession linked with lasting mental health declines

People who suffered a financial, housing-related, or job-related hardship as a result of the Great Recession…

Oldest lake in Europe reveals more than one million years of climate history

The collected geological samples allow the scientists to reconstruct the climate developments of the past 1.3…

Graphene layer enables advance in super-resolution microscopy

Researchers have developed a new method that uses the unusual properties of graphene to interact with…

Biomarker predicts if someone infected with malaria will get sick

Increased p53, the well-known tumor-suppressor protein, can predict whether malaria-infected children will develop fever or other…