(University of Delaware) Expanding the boundaries of catalysis research. The US Department of Energy has renewed a grant that is helping UD's Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI) pioneer efforts to convert biomass into chemicals and fue...

The Hubble Space Telescope gets its final close-up after a shuttle servicing mission in 2009. (NASA Photo) The 28-year-old Hubble Space Telescope is temporarily out of service, due to the failure of one of its gyroscopic pointing devices, but scienti...

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(University of Toledo) Social media is increasingly being exploited to contact, recruit and sell children for sex, according to a study by The University of Toledo Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute.

(Rutgers University) Global average sea-level could rise by nearly 8 feet by 2100 and 50 feet by 2300 if greenhouse gas emissions remain high and humanity proves unlucky, according to a review of sea-level change and projections by Rutgers and other...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN) honored the Patient Education Team from Penn Medicine's OncoLink with the 2018 Excellence in Patient Education Award.

(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) A pilot study has found that pregnant women who have suffered from depression or bipolar disorder (i.e. both mania and depression) recognize babies' faces and how babies laugh or cry, differently to...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted out this picture of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s contrail, glowing in Southern California’s skies after sunset. “Nope, definitely not aliens,” Garcetti wrote. (@MayorOfLA via Twitter) SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket e...

(Lancaster University) Carbon losses caused by El Niño forest fires of 2015 and 2016 could be up to four times greater than thought.

Hair loss treatment products are a $3.6 billion industry, but do they actually work?-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com