For more than a century, heparin has been the go-to anticoagulant to prevent harmful blood clots in blood vessels or the heart from forming or getting larger. However, a major side effect is an ...

Quantum communication systems are emerging solutions to transmit information between devices in a network leveraging quantum ...

A resurgence of illegal fishing in northern Australian waters is a cause for environmental, biosecurity and social concern, ...

An international collaboration, including Northwestern University, has reached a critical milestone in the search for dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about 85% of all matter in the ...

A new study from the University of British Columbia has found that artificial turf fields across Metro Vancouver leach ...

Green investors often boast that they can support sustainability without sacrificing returns. But new research from Texas McCombs suggests otherwise. It also offers governments opportunities to raise ...

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new type of lipid nanoparticle (LNP) that could one day serve as a universal immunotherapy for cancers that form solid tumors, including ...

Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest ...

Plastic trash has reached the world's most remote locations, from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the summit of Everest.

Scientists have developed a new material that can use sunlight and water to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) into carbon monoxide ...

Natural fibers promoted as sustainable alternatives to plastic, including cotton and wool, have been found preserved in a U.K. lake for more than a century—challenging assumptions that they quickly ...

Today, most of the salmon consumed in Japan is imported from countries like Chile and Norway, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. But just two decades ago, Japanese chum ...