The U.S. National Flood Insurance Program is going broke. Increased flood strikes in more places, combined with outdated ways ...

To further the quantitative understanding of cellular decision making, Dr. Gregory Reeves and his team in the chemical engineering department have worked to interpret how a transcription factor ...

Like so many sectors of the economy, the news industry is hurtling toward a future where artificial intelligence plays a major role — grappling with questions about how much the technology is used, ...

For nearly two decades, two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been studied as a complement or possible successor to silicon transistors, promising smaller, faster and more energy-efficient ...

Early mammalian ancestors were nocturnal, sleeping during the day while the dinosaurs dominated the land. However, some mammalian lineages, including human ancestors, independently transitioned to ...

A study by the UAB and the University of A Coruña has succeeded in demonstrating the existence of Roman-era alluvial gold ...

Our bodies are home to millions of fungi that, for the most part, are completely harmless. However, they can sometimes change ...

At newly colonized high-elevation sites in the central Italian Apennines, female Daubenton's bats take turns using the same hunting spots instead of feeding side by side. A study published by a ...

Every year, over 100 billion nitrile rubber gloves are produced. They are made from synthetic polymers—a material chemically related to plastic and derived from crude oil. The vast majority is used in ...

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has analyzed 40 years of data covering about ...

Particles in the atmosphere, known as aerosols, cool the climate by acting as cloud condensation nuclei. The more cloud ...

Cyanobacteria are among the most significant life forms in the history of our planet. As one of the first organisms to produce oxygen through photosynthesis, they shaped early Earth and created the ...