Downsizing the McMansion: Study gauges a sustainable size for future homes

What might homes of the future look like if countries were really committed to meeting global…

Team illuminates the micro-environment, creating a new path to cancer drugs

When corporate partners in the Princeton Catalysis Initiative sat down two years ago with David MacMillan,…

Researchers investigate neural mechanisms that coordinate complex motor sequences in fruit flies

Our day-to-day lives can be seen as a series of complex motor sequences: morning routines, work…

Research shows microplastics are damaging to coral ecosystems

Microplastics are a growing environmental concern, and the effects of this waste product on coral are…

Tissue-digging nanodrills do just enough damage

Molecule-sized drills do the damage they are designed to do. That’s bad news for disease. …

Researchers find newly uncovered Arctic landscape plays important role in carbon cycle

As the ice sheet covering most of Greenland retreats, Florida State University researchers are studying the…

Food scientists slice time off salmonella identification process

Researchers from Cornell University, the Mars Global Food Safety Center in Beijing, and the University of…

Microbiome species interactions reveal how bacteria collaborate to cheat death

Antibiotics can make easy work of infections. But how do they affect the complex ecosystems of…

Scientists say it is time to save the red sea's coral reef

An international group of researchers led by Karine Kleinhaus, MD, of the Stony Brook University School…

Satellite data boosts understanding of climate change's effects on kelp

Tapping into 35 years of satellite imagery, researchers at Oregon State University have dramatically enlarged the…