“Everyday leisure and work habits, visits to friend and kin networks—which themselves tend to be segregated—and a feeling of being comfortable or not in…
Jul 11, 2018
A study led by scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that advanced algorithms working from large chemical databases can predict a new chemical's toxicity better than standard animal tests.
Jul 11, 2018
Earth’s oxygen levels rose and fell more than once hundreds of millions of years before the planetwide success of the Great Oxidation Event about 2.4 billion years ago, new research from the University of Washington shows.
Jul 9, 2018
Designing new molecules for pharmaceuticals is primarily a manual, time-consuming process that’s prone to error.
Jul 8, 2018
Diamonds are prized for their purity, but their flaws might hold the key to a new type of highly secure communications.
Jul 7, 2018
Within each breathe of air we need to live, Are carried tiny particles of dust; These specks pass through our bodies’ finest sieve, And cause our lungs and hearts to tar and rust.
Jul 6, 2018
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have recorded the most detailed atomic movie of gold melting after being blasted by laser light.
Jul 6, 2018
Job applicants who want to appear calm and collected might be at a disadvantage.
Jul 6, 2018
An add-on treatment commonly offered to female IVF patients to improve their chance of success has been shown in a large randomised trial to be of no value.
Jul 3, 2018
Hidden deep beneath the briny, see-through floor You seep effervescently from your veiled crack, Belching out a defiant, aquatic roar.
Jun 29, 2018
Around 25 percent of Medicare spending in the U.S. occurs in the last year of people’s lives.
Jun 29, 2018
The longer a woman spends living in a neighborhood low on the socio-economic scale, the more likely she is to not gain enough weight during pregnancy, according to a new study.
Jun 28, 2018
Using graphene, one of science’s most versatile materials, engineers from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have invented a new type of photodetector that can work with more types of light than its current state-of-the-art counterparts.
Jun 28, 2018
The rise in income inequality between skilled and unskilled workers since the 1970s might be due, at least in part, to a decline in union membership, Princeton University researchers have found.
Jun 27, 2018
