Science and engineering

Dramatic evolution within human genome may have been caused by malaria parasite.

Research Aimed at Accelerating Conduct of Clinical Trials.

Seiko Epson Corporation is expanding its lineup of industrial SCARA robots with its new T series of robots that will offer a low total cost of ownership.

Dining out frequently can make it harder to control a food budget, new research suggests. People who eat out often tend to underestimate the amount they’d spend over the week and then raise the following week’s budget.

An international team of researchers has learned something surprising about the cerebellum, which despite its small size contains roughly half of all the neurons in the brain.

The American campaign to win the "hearts and minds" of Afghanistan's people has the unintended consequence of provoking Taliban attacks on villages where the strategy seems to be working.

It's a cold, dreary day in early March, and Josefin Sundin is standing in one of the two aquarium rooms at the Ar Research Station on a remote corner of Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea.

Satellite data show seasonal and regional changes in global ozone, ammonia levels

MIT researchers have devised a way to make tumor cells more susceptible to certain types of cancer treatment by coating the cells with nanoparticles before delivering drugs.

Selectively blocking immune cells can prevent formation of scar tissue around medical devices.

Novartis provides update on Phase III study of RLX030 (serelaxin) in patients with acute heart failure

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) and Ormat Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ORA) today announced that the first unit of the Sarulla geothermal power plant, one of the world's largest power plants, located in Indonesia's North Sumatra, has commenced commercial operation

Apple today announced that Swift Playgrounds, a revolutionary app for iPad that helps students learn to code, is now available in five new languages.

KAMAZ PTC (part of Rostec State Corporation) summed up the results of the traditional annual contest on invention and rationalization.