Prof Pierce Chow (left) and Duke-NUS alumnus Dr Marjorie Hoang (right) discuss the next steps for their calculator, which ...

Stressed bees are much more likely to make pessimistic choices and lack a buzz in life, new research has revealed. Scientists ...

Exposure to high levels of heat may both impact the growth of foetuses during pregnancy and infants up to the age of two, a new analysis suggests.

Students don’t have to be friends, but they should be friendly. In other words, they should learn to be respectful of one ...

MIT engineers built a solar-powered desalination system that produces large quantities of clean water despite variations in ...

Part of the team that manages the tape storage library at the Scientific Data and Computing Center of the U.S. Department of ...

International leaders in health will discuss some of the most pressing global health issues of the day at the 7th biennial ...

Mating experiments were conducted with insects infected with Rickettsia and those cured of Rickettsia infection by antibiotic treatment. Among the four possible mating combinations, only the pairing ...

Despite considerable progress in the discovery and development of new cancer drugs, there are significant disparities in both the availability and timeliness of these medicines worldwide, with poorer ...

In a paper published recently in Nature Catalysis, a research team led by the University of California, Irvine describe how they engineered an efficient new enzyme that can produce a synthetic genetic ...

Waiting more than 4 hours in emergency care for treatment is linked to heightened risks of death and a longer hospital stay for hip fracture patients, reveals a single centre study, published online ...

Quitting smoking even as late as at 75 years of age can meaningfully increase a person’s life expectancy, according to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier ...