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Scientists in the Netherlands have developed a solar reactor that looks and acts like a leaf. By putting chemicals in the artificial leaf’s microchannels, which resemble the veins on a real leaf, and exposing it to sunlight...

The deadly virus Ebola has returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A new outbreak of Ebola stuck the northwest town of Bikoro with 21 suspected cases of the virus. Out of five samples sent to the DRC's National...

Lab-grown brains just got one step closer to reality after scientists announced that experimental mini brains have begun sprouting their own blood vessels...

Scientists at Stanford University are currently preparing the first human test of a cancer "vaccine," a treatment that eliminated up to 97 percent of tumors during trials with mice. Appropriately 35 people with lymphoma...

Sometimes the difference between life and death is a matter of time. For injured soldiers in the field, the minutes that pass before a medic can treat them can make all the difference. That's why DARPA is looking into ways...

sKan is an inexpensive device that can detect skin cancer at its early stages. The device creates heat maps to identify abnormalities in the skin often associated with melanoma, treatment for which has a higher success rate...

In a new study from researchers at Arizona State University, scientists have documented that a particular protein known as alphaVbeta3 has the ability to conduct electricity...

Centrifuges separate blood components to make pathogens easier to detect - and they're essential to diagnosing and treating diseases like Malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis...

Tiny new robots are proving to be life-saving tools in the fight against cancer. As first reported in the journal Nature, scientists at Durham University in England, in collaboration with researchers at Rice and North Carolina...

83% of rural Africans lack access to critical healthcare services - and delivering emergency supplies is often difficult or impossible due to ailing infrastructure...

After all the poor health outcomes caused by tobacco over centuries, it's about time the plant started doing something good. Scientists in the United Kingdom have developed a technique to infect relatives of the tobacco plant...

As the world rushes to transition to a new energy economy, researchers are uncovering novel methods to harvest energy from mundane, everyday sources. A research team in China has created a new battery that could be safely...

As the world rushes to transition to a new energy economy, researchers are uncovering novel methods to harvest energy from mundane, everyday sources. A research team in China has created a new battery that could be safely...

Popeye was right: spinach really is good for the muscles, and not just the ones in your biceps. In fact, scientists have discovered a way to use the leafy stuff, which has a vascular system not dissimilar to ours, to grow...

While smartphone spectrometers are already being used to help detect cancer, they have only been able to evaluate one sample at a time, making the work slow and tedious...