A recently published study estimates that up to 70 percent of the United States' electricity needs could be met through a newly devised system that harvests power from evaporation. This novel power source uses bacterial spores to generate electricity and can sit on top of lakes and reservoirs.
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The emerging field of soft robotics is helping to make robots safer, but recreating muscle is no easy task. Now, mechanical engineers from Columbia University have developed a synthetic soft muscle that’s much more simple to make and run than others, and is stronger than the real thing.
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Someday in the not-too-distant future, getting rid of those unwanted "love handles" may be as easy as applying skin patches to your lower abdomen. In experiments on obese mice, researchers have successfully used such patches to slim the creatures down.
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Research continues to show that sitting down all day is bad for our health, but a wide-ranging new study suggests that regularly splitting up these sedentary periods can make a difference, with those that do so experiencing a lower risk of death.
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“Why aren’t we still evolving?” is a common argument against evolution, but evidence shows that it is still happening if you know where to look. Now a genetic study has found evidence of natural selection at work in the genomes of over 200,000 people.
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A study carried out at Columbia University Medical Center has found the first direct evidence that autoimmunity contributes to Parkinson's disease, by extension raising the prospect of manipulating the body's immune system to slow or even halt its progress.
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Questions over how precise the CRISPR gene-editing tool is have been raised in a new study from Columbia University Medical Center, which shows this revolutionary technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome.
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Researchers have developed a miniature version of a lung in a dish, called an "organoid," that functions just like a real, full-size lung. These mini organs aren't designed for transplants, but rather as a research tool to study human disease and test drugs that could regenerate damaged tissue.
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By some estimates, the human eye can distinguish between a million colors, yet scientists looking through a microscope have been limited to seeing only five. Researchers have blasted through this "color barrier" with a new technique that ups microscopy's color vision to 24 different shades.
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Scientists have discovered a link between a common genetic variant and the risk for neurodegenerative diseases. The new biomarker becomes active around age 65 and may provide a new means of evaluating,or treating age-related brain disorders.
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