A computational analysis conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology revealed that many repetitive sequences are shared across proteins and are similar in species from bacteria to humans. The new method can reveal the functions of these sequences and the proteins in which they are found.

The number of young people that died due to Covid-19 increased in 2021 as compared to 2020 which affected older adults. A study by Brigham and Women’s Hospital has quantified this downward age-shift in Covid-19 deaths, using Years of Life Lost rather than mortality.

Post the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, the amount of new psychiatric diagnoses by Finnish specialist services increased by nearly a fifth among children and adolescents in Finland, according to a new study conducted by the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry of the University of Turku and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare.

Lithium extraction from the deep sea, overfishing of deeper-water species, and the unexpected ocean impacts of wildfires on land are among 15 issues experts warn we ought to be addressing now.

Scientists from UC Riverside are studying how the popular keto and intermittent fasting diets work on a molecular level, and whether both sexes benefit from them equally.

Researchers have developed the first AI system which can design a walking robot from scratch in mere seconds! The system was prompted to design a robot that can walk across a flat surface and the result was an evolved robot with three legs and rear fins.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new method that can easily purify contaminated water using a cellulose-based material. This discovery could have implications for countries with poor water treatment technologies and combat the widespread problem of toxic dye discharge from the textile industry.

A pneumonia trial is expected to be held across England in order to find out if aspirin can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke in patients who are admitted to hospital with pneumonia.

A common chemical reaction that most people have seen first-hand is the inspiration for a new way to make a flexible gel film that could lead to innovations in sensors, batteries, robotics and more.

Researchers have now found a new and revolutionary way to detect the most malignant brain cancers as they often grow in an infiltrative web-like manner on their periphery making distinguishing the boundaries between glioma and non-glioma difficult.