Snooping is not allowed. Credit: Paul Walsh, CC BY-NC-SA By Grant Blank, University of Oxford Standing on a stage in San Francisco in early 2010, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that as…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Keytruda (pembrolizumab), a new immunotherapy drug to treat advanced melanoma after it was tested on more than 600 patients who had melanoma…

A 'less is more' approach is not only making 3-D printed parts lighter and stronger, but faster and more economical. A new technique under development is high speed sintering (HSS). Unlike…

A recent paper makes a connection between the quantum group SLq(2), which describes knots, and the elementary particles of the Standard Model.  A mathematical knot is an embedding of a circle in…

Cigarette smoking is considered a leading cause of preventable death worldwide and implicated in as many as 440,000 deaths in the United States each year by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…

A strange thing happened during climate change policy debates: Advances in hydraulic fracturing - fracking - put trillions of dollars' worth of previously unreachable oil and natural gas within…

American cars didn't cause all climate change, no matter what you may have read. Around 13,000 years ago, a sudden, catastrophic event caused drastic climate change and much of the Earth was plunged…

Researchers have discovered a pathway that may improve understanding of molecular mistakes that cause older women to have babies with Down syndrome. As women age, so do their eggs and during a woman'…

Concerns about kidney transplantation are very high among kidney failure patients, particularly older adults and women, but why? There are thousands of patients with kidney failure who lack access to…

The Tangshanpeng Wind Farm in China. Credit: Flickr/Land Rover Our Planet, CC BY-SA By John Mathews and Hao Tan, University of Newcastle With the failure of international agreements to fight climate…