Researchers have witnessed how football-shaped carbon molecules known as buckyballs arrange themselves into ultra-smooth layers, all in real time, and by piecing that together with theoretical…

Brand Beckham. Dave Thompson/PA Wire By Tamara Friedrich, University of Warwick Victoria Beckham has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by Management Today. She topped their list of 100 successful…

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Gavin Andrew Stewart, CC BY By Arnaud Chevalier, Royal Holloway and Olivier Marie, Maastricht University Germany and the rest of Europe are celebrating the 25th…

No need to say goodbye to the print book. Amy Johansson/Shutterstock By Andrew Prescott, King's College London “Analog” and “digital” are the two polar opposites of our modern world. The word “analog…

If graduates are helped along through school, how will they cope in the workforce? Shutterstock By Rachael Sharman, University of the Sunshine Coast A research center in the UK recently found that…

The structure of an asymmetrical ABC transporter complex has been determined with the aid of a high-resolution cryo-electron microscope. ABC transporters cause bacteria and other pathogens to…

Credit: Filip Bunkens/Flickr By Meredith Knight, Genetic Literacy Project Who wants a healthy gut? Apparently a lot of people. The probiotics industry is expected to reach $45 billion annually in the…

As both a word and an idea, 'medieval' carries centuries of connotation of a murky and brutal pre-scientific age. Swanson Scott/US Fish&Wildlife Service  By Louise D'Arcens, University of…

A serious epidemic of poliomyelitis that struck the Republic of the Congo in 2010 has been identified as a vaccine-resistant strain of polio. The epidemic affected 445 people in the city of Pointe-…

Like coffee but your liberal guilt won't let you enjoy it if the energy to heat the water might have come from natural gas or nuclear energy? There may be hope for the future. Researchers at…