Exercise is one of the first strategies used to treat obesity-related health problems like Type 2 diabetes and other cardiovascular disease, but scientists don’t understand exactly how it works to improve metabolic health.
A new sustainable and practical method for producing hydrogen from water has been discovered by a team of researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan led by Ryuhei Nakamura.
A catalytic combination of multiple monomers generates a polymer that has an exceptional ability to self-heal
A roof-like ligand permits the selective synthesis of one of the three possible isomers of a key class of aromatic chemicals
Simply illuminating a fluid can cause its interaction with an electric field to greatly vary
Six fluorescent compounds have been uncovered by a novel strategy for designing molecules that combines machine learning and quantum chemistry calculations
RIKEN-engineered microbes and plant lignin could soon help produce everything from car tires to engine components.
A green method for producing crystalline supramolecular fibers promises to make polymer production more sustainable
They can live for more than 100 years and weigh up to 250 kilograms – Aldabra giant tortoises.
A study by the universities of Zurich and Mainz has shown that teaching children how to manage their attention and impulses in primary school has a positive long-term effect on their later educational success.
For the first time, researchers at Umeå University can now show how the dreaded poliovirus behaves when it takes over an infected cell and tricks the cell into producing new virus particles. Polio was thought to be almost eradicated, but infection has now been rediscovered in London and New York.
One-third of 986 patients achieved long-term self-care of their type 2 diabetes after building trusting relationships with community health workers (promotores in Spanish) over 12 weeks
Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) are part of an international team that discovered 61 additional genetic loci associated with stroke and six genes that are potential targets for drug therapy to prevent or treat stroke.
A device known as a bionic pancreas, which uses next-generation technology to automatically deliver insulin, was more effective at maintaining blood glucose (sugar) levels within normal range than standard-of-care management among people with type 1 diabetes
Holy mackerel! Could eating salmon, cod, tuna, herring or sardines keep our brains healthy and our thinking agile in middle age? New research makes this connection.
A UC Riverside physicist explains
Unusual forests on stilts mitigate climate change
In a guest editorial in the prestigious American journal, Science, the head of the University of Edinburgh argues that the British withdrawal from the European Union (EU) caused a partial collapse of the “collaborative ecosystem of research and innovation.”
Scent serves as GPS for quick-to-bite disease vectors
Disappearing native is like an environmental Swiss Army knife