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A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th century slayings, and found that […]

Individual innovation is considered one sign of intelligence within species, and elephants are among the animals that researchers have long taken an interest […]

Understanding how children learn to count can have profound impacts on the kinds of instructional materials used in the classroom. And the way those materials […]

The friction on a graphene surface can be dynamically tuned using external electric fields, according to researchers at the University of Illinois […]

The value of on-the-job training should not be underestimated, according to a University of Auckland study, which found that overeducated and over-skilled […]

In today's online world, third parties collect and store your browsing data at staggering rates. Third parties benefit greatly from this information, but do […]

A new comprehensive review published in Industrial Biotechnology examines how industrial biotechnology and biopharmaceutical manufacturing utilize the same […]

As much of the U.S. broils under record-setting temperatures, battles wildfires and is rocked by fierce storms, a new study suggests that the science learning […]

Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa are now able to create maps of coral biochemistry […]

A recent study published in Science Advances sheds new light on the enigmatic early evolution of snakes by examining an unexpected source: their brains. The […]

Increased government investment in climate change mitigation is prompting agricultural sectors to find reliable methods for measuring their contribution to […]

Today, we are living in the midst of a race to develop a quantum computer, one that could be used for practical applications. This device, built on the […]

Parts of the New York City metropolitan area are sinking and rising at different rates due to factors ranging from land-use practices to long-lost glaciers, […]

Humanity stands on the verge of two major revolutions: the boom in 2-dimensional supermaterials like graphene with incredible properties and the introduction […]

Cornell researchers have discovered a gene in hemp for resistance to powdery mildew—giving the fledgling hemp industry a new tool to combat one of the most […]

In two recent papers, Saint Louis University researchers report finding high concentrations of microplastics present in a Missouri cave system that had been […]

In a paper published in the Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, a multidisciplinary team including biologists, chemists, chemical engineers, and […]

An Egyptian-German mission led by Egyptologist Dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled of the Department of Egyptology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (JMU) […]

A study published in the journal Science Bulletin was led by Profs. Xiao-Long Zhou and En-Duo Wang (CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, […]

The fuels used today depend heavily on petroleum. As the demand grows, scientists are looking for ways to produce fuels that do not require petroleum. A […]

Although a plethora of carbon-based catalysts have been developed to promote oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in different electrochemical systems, the […]

They are sustainable and healthy—filamentous edible fungi that are fed with, for example, oats. The latest addition to the world-leading research at the […]

Researchers from King Khalid University have made significant progress in addressing environmental concerns related to the oil industry by developing an […]

High school students in poor, rural Appalachian areas face several obstacles in attaining a college education. One of those impediments may be their own sense […]

RUDN University ecologists found a parameter in satellite images that allows accurately calculating and increasing the wheat yield. Such technology helps […]