Biomedical engineers at Duke University have engineered a method for simultaneously detecting the presence of multiple specific microRNAs in RNA extracted from tissue samples without the need for labeling or target amplification.

Bird poop may pose more health risks than people realize, according to Rice University environmental engineers who study antibiotic resistance.

Recent accounts in the media have described the appearance of lion’s mane jellyfish in waters and beaches in the Northeast as a surprising, sometimes troubling, event, with record sizes and numbers reported from Maine to the Massachusetts south coast.

Tropical Depression 8E developed on July 20 and quickly organized into a tropical storm.

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean and provided forecasters with a visible image of the waning Tropical Depression 7E.

Seated around the dinner table, faculty affiliated with Stanford ChEM-H – one of Stanford University’s interdisciplinary institutes – spoke one-by-one, pitching ideas for collaborative research.

On the Tuesday before Easter, some 800 kilometers off the coast of California, a space capsule attached to three brightly-colored parachutes glides down towards the Pacific.

Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with teams from the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague and Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem have developed a new 2D material to produce hydrogen, which is the basis of alternative energy. 

A team of researchers led by the University of Adelaide and University of Stuttgart has used 3D micro-printing to develop the world’s smallest, flexible scope for looking inside blood vessels.

The ocean stores huge amounts of heat and carbon in a vast reservoir that covers 70 percent of Earth’s surface.