Research shows that as more scholarly and research journals are available online, researchers are citing fewer of them - and they are primarily newer papers. There's no question the Internet gives…

Humans have long been trying to make the dream of nanoscopic robots come true. It's getting closer each time nanoscience produces components for molecular-scale machines. One such device is a rotor…

Researchers from China, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom, have created a model that shows exactly how, when a baby suckles at a mother's breast, it starts a chain of events that leads to a surge…

Research at the University of Liverpool has found how Saharan dust storms help sustain life over extensive regions of the North Atlantic Ocean. Working aboard research vessels in the Atlantic,…

Viruses achieve their definition of success when they can thrive without killing their host. Now, biologists Pamela Bjorkman and Zhiru Yang of the California Institute of Technology have uncovered…

I just got my hands on a recent book by two influential biologists, Marc Kirschner, chair of Harvard's recently created Systems Biology Department, and John Gerhart, a professor at UC Berkeley. Their…

Dividing is one of the trickiest things a cell has to do. The cell needs to faithfully copy its entire genome, with very few mistakes, and it needs to then divvy up those two genome copies equally…

A super-resolution X-ray microscope developed by a team of researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and EPFL in Switzerland combines the high penetration power of x-rays with high spatial…

NEW YORK, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- - Largest electricity investment in Togo's history will double the Country's generating capacity ContourGlobal Togo, a subsidiary of international power company…

LONDON, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite members across the NHS will today (Friday 18th July) send a strong message to government to say: "Cut my pay - No Way!" In a national day of protest NHS staff…