A new study by Boston University’s School of Public Health (BUSPH) indicates that nearly half (48 percent) of adolescents ages 12-18 have been stalked or harassed during a relationship, and 42 percent have done the stalking or harassing.
University of California, Riverside researchers have discovered that, during photosynthesis, plants can protect themselves from solar surges and achieve near quantum efficiency when converting light into energy by absorbing specific colors of light.
Face masks are a hot topic lately, with the Centers for Disease Control recommending that people wear face masks when outside their homes and when unable to keep a minimum of 6 feet distance between themselves and others to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some microorganisms use spiral-shaped, shape-changing flagella to help them move more smoothly through their surrounding environments, but the direction and velocity of the swimmers is controlled by elements, like magnetic fields, because the organisms' bodies cannot deform.
In a review published in Nature on July 1, researchers provide an overview of origin of life research and highlight several key challenges in the field.
Until recently, no one has known why flying snakes move through the air by flattening their bodies and moving from side to side, appearing as if swimming while "flying." Now, thanks to Isaac Yeaton, a scientist from Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory and lead researcher on a 2015 study of the flying snake.
Movement of proteins to the bacterial cell surface, the environment outside the cell, and even into target cells is critical for bacterial communities and pathogen-host interactions. The export of proteins, from Gram-negative bacteria in particular, is challenging, because two membranes (inner and outer) must be passed.
Universities and colleges across the United States closed their doors and moved to the Internet in March 2019.
A cohort study of individuals from England, Wales and Scotland has revealed a few potential risk factors for individuals who could contract the respiratory condition caused by the novel coronavirus.
More than 250 million years ago, the biggest extinction event ever occurred – it’s called The Great Dying.
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science explored the connections between elements of the microbiome and biomarkers of human traits through a cohort study including populations from Israel and the United States.
Scientists will recalibrate a key tool in determining how old a preshistoric sample is in the coming months.
The lead researcher, John Ioannidis, of the controversial study of antibodies has responded to his critics who complained about a conflict of interest after David Neeleman was found to have provided funding for the study. An anonymous complaint was filed with Stanford University in early May.
In a historic moment, SpaceX launched two American astronauts into orbit on May 30.
Quanta Magazine has published on the question of how time works, highlighting Swiss physicist Nikolas Gisin’s papers which have been said to clear up the “fog around physics,” according to an April 7 report.
The data on COVID-19 changes from day-to-day, and researchers say that initial estimates of the number of novel coronavirus infections that led to death from COVID-19 may have been overestimated, because of the small sample size they obtained data for early in the outbreak.
Geologists look at the formations they study as similar to an encyclopedia, a record that explains things that have happened.
Researchers have found that honeybees, native to South Africa, have a single gene that allows them to reproduce without sexual activity.