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Insight into how plants make cellulose could lead to a better understanding of how to break it down for renewable fuels.

In the city of Subotica/ Szabadka in Serbia on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the minority protection model which Serbia has implemented can serve as an example for the whole of Europe.

The debut novel of Justin Torres, assistant professor of English at UCLA, has been translated into 15 languages and was recently adapted into a film of the same name.

One-third of young adults aged 19 and 20 report riding in a motor vehicle with an impaired driver at the wheel at least once in the past year, a new study reports.

Engineers have created a light-emitting device that’s just millimeters wide and totally transparent when it’s turned off. The material in the device is a monolayer semiconductor, which is just three atoms thick.

"Large mobile predators such as sharks may be a very important source of nutrients for even the smallest reef creatures, such as corals."

Science-fiction-like devices that could detect viruses or cancer in blood or sniff out traces of chemical weapons could be a reality thanks to a new discovery with sensors.

The Standard & Poor's (S&P) agency reported on Friday that it had raised its long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Croatia to 'BB+' from 'BB'.

Alstom has been awarded four contracts totalling around €330 million by Trenitalia, the Italian national train operator, for the supply of 54 Coradia Stream regional trains.

The world has seen a surge in electric vehicle use in recent years, but that plug-in push has not sparked as brightly in Russia.

Energy bills for companies across Greece will be reduced by new energy efficiency investment backed by a new EUR 100 million initiative by the EIB and Piraeus Bank.

Emirates Airline has been named ‘Airline of the Year’ at the 2018 Air Transport Awards. Emirates won the prestigious accolade based the evaluation from a jury comprised of executives and experts from different sectors within the aviation industry.

Helium "was always considered to be unreactive—the element that doesn't react with anything." Not so, say researchers.

The Fed continued to project three rate hikes this year but forecasts a steeper path of hikes in 2019 and 2020.