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An eco-friendly, low-cost, and high-efficiency wastewater processing catalyst has been developed from an agricultural byproduct.

Many of the deadliest or most common cancers get the least amount of nonprofit research funding, according to a new study that examined the distribution of nonprofit cancer research funding in 2015 across cancer types.

Microbes are the "master chefs" of the biomolecular world; collectively, they harbor the ability to produce a vast array of unknown substances, some of which may have therapeutic or other useful properties. In searching for useful products, a team of chemists have uncovered a whole new class of microbial recipes.

Infants born to women exposed to high levels of air pollution in the week before delivery are more likely to be admitted to a newborn intensive care unit, suggests analysis.

Researchers have published a review on serial femtosecond crystallography, a promising method for analyzing the tertiary structure of proteins. This technique has rapidly evolved over the past decade, opening new prospects for the rational design of drugs targeting proteins previously inaccessible to structural analysis.

Scientists have discovered that a specific brain cell known as a 'projection neuron' has a central role to play in the brain changes seen in multiple sclerosis (MS). The research shows that projection neurons are damaged by the body's own immune cells, and that this damage could underpin the brain shrinkage and cognitive changes associated with MS

By measuring the fast electrical spikes of individual neurons in the touch region of the brain, Brown University neuroscientists have discovered a new type of cell that keeps time so regularly that it may serve as the brain's long-hypothesized clock or metronome.

Software that purportedly reads emotions in faces is being deployed or tested for a variety of purposes, including surveillance, hiring, clinical diagnosis, and market research. But a new scientific report finds that facial movements are an inexact gauge of a person's feelings, behaviors or intentions.

In a bid to reduce the amount of energy used in chemical separations, such as refining feedstocks to make a wide variety of products including gasoline, plastics and food, researchers are working on membranes that could separate chemicals without using energy-intensive distillation processes.

A mechanism has been identified which explains how dormant bacteria wake up. This finding is important, as persistent dormant cells are often responsible for the stubbornness of chronic infections.