A team of NASA-funded UCF researchers is pioneering a new nanocoating to passively mitigate the effects of lunar dust, protect equipment and ultimately extend future lunar missions.

While deforestation completely removes native vegetation cover, degradation weakens forests without destroying them entirely ...

In the journal PNAS, a Kobe University team around YANAGISAWA Kuniaki reports that when optimists think about future events, their neural activity patterns are mutually similar. Pessimists’ patterns, ...

Shown in this artist’s concent, Southwest Research Institute managed NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics ...

A new genetic test, based on data from more than five million people, can identify people at risk of severe obesity. The test can be performed on children before their genetic risk starts to shape ...

A new commentary published in Nature Communications by Dr James Bradley, Reader in Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London, and his team reveals a dramatic and concerning shift in the ...

Dr. Sung Mook Choi and his research team at the Energy & Environmental Materials Research Division of the Korea Institute of ...

When environmental stress harms DNA, it can set off a cascade of failures linked to heart conditions, neurodegeneration, and ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco and Gladstone Institutes have identified cancer drugs that promise to reverse the changes that occur in the brain during Alzheimer’s, potentially slowing or even ...

Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived — or “pass” — as non-autistic. For the first time, researchers from Drexel University's A ...

A new genetic analysis using data from over five million people has provided a clearer understanding of the risk of going on to live with obesity.  New research led by the Universities of Copenhagen ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...