Science and engineering

Grapevines are crops of global economic importance that will face increasing drought stress because many varieties are described as highly sensitive to hydraulic failure as frequency and intensity of summer drought increase.

Children born into housing compounds with improvements in drinking water quality, sanitation, and handwashing infrastructure were not measurably taller after two years compared to those born into compounds with more contamination, a new study suggests.

The release of Nielsen’s holiday book portable people meter (PPM) ratings reveals a surprising result from the end of the 2017 listening year.

New research into exotic materials gets a bit closer making spintronic devices a reality.

Women outlive men in normal times, as well as during the worst of circumstances, three centuries of historical records show.

The goal of the project was to promote environmental awareness, improve local residents’ environmental safety knowledge and encourage an environmentally friendly approach to nature.

Finding molecules in winds coming from black holes at the center of galaxies "was like discovering ice in a furnace." A new theory may explain things.

Antimicrobials have been a driver of unprecedented medical and societal advances, but their overuse has resulted in antibiotic resistant bacteria, with the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting new surveillance data on Monday.

"It's like a machine that’s missing just one screw: Everything just falls apart."

Study: Little genetic difference among Dungeness crab from California to Washington

Huntington's may start earlier than we thought—and existing treatments may actually do more harm than good.

Bourevestnik, Inc., subsidiary company of ALROSA, supplied and commissioned a set of 27 X-ray luminescence sorters at the new recovery plant of the Cullinan mine in South Africa.

Santhera Reports Preliminary Key Financial Figures for 2017 and Provides Corporate Update

Roche announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for its investigational oral medicine balovaptan (previously known as RG7314), a vasopressin 1a (V1a) receptor antagonist for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

IBM Security today released a global study examining consumer perspectives around digital identity and authentication, which found that people now prioritize security over convenience when logging into applications and devices.