Tiny single-cell organisms living underground could help with the problem of nuclear waste disposal, according to a paper in the ISME (Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology) Journal.…

Reducing hyperactivity in kids may be as simple as getting them out to play. Kids are full of energy so having them trapped in a classroom all day from a young age isn't easy. For some, it is…

By pairing two unconventional forms of carbon – one shaped like a soccer ball, the other a tiny diamond – scientists have created a molecule that acts as a rectifier - it conducts electricity in only…

Positive results from its final preclinical toxicology study of SYN-004 have led Synthetic Biologics to get ready for clinical trials of the anti-infective, second-generation product candidate for…

Dora grows up. Credit: Lisa West Photography, CC BY-NC-ND By Bruce Fuller, University of California, Berkeley It may take a budding Latina tween with warm dark eyes and undaunted courage to ready…

The Orion Nebula. Image credit: NASA http://bit.ly/1rTTyeC By: Marcus Woo, Inside Science (Inside Science) -- Interstellar space can be a dusty place, filled with tiny flecks no bigger than a…

 The Institute of Medicine has recommended that clinicians minimize interventions in patients with life-limiting disease and instead focus on maximizing quality of life but more than half of…

The purpose of this article is to present a framework and a method for cyber-target categorization. The framework contains factors, which influence on cyber targeting process and the presented…

Ideally lollipops, cookies, sugar-sweetened drinks, potato chips and processed meats will never appear in your shopping cart.   Want to stack the nutrition odds in your favor? The key is good…

By Karin Heineman, Inside Science  (Inside Science TV) – From powering homes, to cars to phones, people across the world use vast amounts of energy. And that consumption is only growing. As…

Critical mass of editors could help solve the puzzle.Credit: bastique, CC BY-SA By Mark Graham, University of Oxford The geography of knowledge has always been uneven. Some people and places have…

Eyes – windows on the soul?Credit: Ángelo González, CC BY-SA By Tracy Long-Sutehall, University of Southampton Tissue and organ availability for use in transplant operations is influenced by many…

Soon to be grown for ornamental use only.Credit: Mark Nesbitt and Samuel Delwen, CC BY By Luc Henry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne The past few decades have seen enormous progress…

Nearly 1 in 3 young adults ages 19 to 25 years lacked health insurance in 2009 - in most cases, they didn't want to incur the cost but one of the goals of the Affordable Care Act, also known as…

Though nearly every medical body and the United Nations would rather that epidemiologists stop talking about "pre-diabetes", concerns are still there. Governments are worried that working up the…

A team of researchers have evaluated mepolizumab, a new antibody-based drug for certain patients with severe asthma, and found it can replace traditional, steroid-based treatments for a specific…

Though the American government now wants to control intake, another study has affirmed that claims of a link between table salt and hypertension were always on shaky ground. A new paper in the…

A new species of titanosaurian, a member of the large-bodied sauropods that thrived during the final period of the dinosaur age, has been found in Tanzania. Many fossils of titanosaurians have been…

A new study has found that the pond-dwelling, single-celled organism Oxytricha trifallax has the remarkable ability to break its own DNA into nearly a quarter-million pieces and will then rapidly…

Immunotoxins are targeted antibodies that go after deadly toxins like ricin. In the quest to find targeted therapies for cancer - that kill cancer but spare the surrounding tissue, immunotoxins make…