When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

Imagine standing on top of a mountain. From this vantage point, we can see picturesque valleys and majestic ridges below, and streams wind their way downhill. If a drop of rain falls somewhere on this ...

The stability of the foam does not depend on individual factors in a linear manner. You can't just change one thing and get ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

ETH Zurich scientists have found the holy grail of brewing: the long-sought formula behind stable beer foam. Their research ...

When does a soccer team really face a crisis—and in which situations is the dismissal of a coach nothing but an over-hasty reaction? In a recently published study, researchers at Karlsruhe Institute ...

The results suggest that as perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) moves across the food web — from water to fish to birds — its linear isomers become more prevalent than branched isomers.

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LG Electronics marked the 50th anniversary of its Gasan R&D Campus, the first comprehensive research institute established by ...

In this day and age, on the surface level, it seems like we know a lot about how the world, the human body, and the universe ...