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“People often say we’re running out of antibiotics, but there are more than 20,000 molecules with antibiotic activity in the Handbook of Antibiotics,” said Timothy Wencewicz, a chemist at Washington

The researchers examined data on all singleton births to women residing in Washington State, US, 2003 to 2013 (n = 828,269) and compared age-specific rates of maternal mortality and severe

More than 2.5 billion people live in areas afflicted by dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease that is increasing at alarming rates in tropical and subtropical countries. Suppression efforts have

Previous studies have found an epidemiological link between binge eating and traumatic or stressful events during early life, but untangling the biology behind that correlation has proved difficult. “Here we

“This study shows the potential for future climate changes to alter the impact of forest pathogens, and the need to incorporate disease effects into future forestry planning as of now.

Since the 1970s the northern polar region has warmed faster than global averages by a factor or two or more, in a process of ‘Arctic amplification’ which is linked to

The study, conducted in conjunction with researchers from Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, was published today in Science Signaling and focusses on a protein called ULBP6. Proteins are made up of

Most scientists agree that black holes, cosmic entities of such great gravity that nothing can escape their grip, are surrounded by a so-called event horizon. Once matter or energy gets

In a new study, the team argue that the springs acted as pit stops to allow early humans to survive as they moved across the African landscape. The team believe

Researchers from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London assessed the calming effects of a new wearable device called doppel — a wristband designed to actively reduce

Now, a research group in Singapore has used computer simulations to further probe the behaviors of skyrmions, gaining insight that can help scientists and engineers better study the quasi-particles in

“The concentration of silica is very high at the centerlines of these halos,” said Jens Frydenvang, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Copenhagen and lead

In order to use bacteria of the microbiome as biomarker sensors, their genome needs to be modified with synthetic genetic circuits, or a set of genes that work together to

The study by an international team of economists of all the world’s major cities is the first to quantify the potentially devastating combined impact of global and local climate change