Women constitute approximately 47 percent of the workforce yet are underrepresented at the highest levels of business, government, medical and academic hierarchies. A team of researchers has developed..

Face-to-face workshops based on the psychology of behavior change and disaster preparedness can be used to prompt households to take action to protect themselves against disasters such as earthquakes,..

To prevent ice formation on aircraft during flight, current systems utilize the heat generated by burning fuel, but these high-temperature, fuel-dependent systems cannot be used on the proposed all-el..

Special carriers ensure that proteins are transported to where they are needed in the cell. By combining innovative investigative techniques, biochemists have succeeded in comprehensively analyzing tw..

Engineers have discovered a novel approach for the water-assisted upgrading of the renewable chemical, furfural, doubling or tripling the rate of conversion.

New findings reveal how immune cells turn off killer T cells, pointing to new drug targets that can improve the success of cancer immunotherapy.

New research in nonhuman primates shows that heavy use of alcohol can actually slow the rate of growth in developing brains. The study, to be published April 1, in the journal eNeuro, shows that heavy..

Researchers have discovered and characterized a new form of oxygen dubbed 'featherweight oxygen' — the lightest-ever version of the familiar chemical element oxygen, with only three neutron..

Researchers have devised a processing technique that can create transparent polythene film that can be stronger as aluminum but at a fraction of the weight, and which could be used use in glazing, win..

Foster care provides valuable information about dog behavior that can help homeless dogs living in shelters find forever homes. Researchers found short-term fostering benefited shelter dogs in Arizona..