Countless news stories have reported on research tying moderate drinking to a range of health benefits—including a lower heart disease risk and a longer life.

What makes peanut allergies so lethal, and why is the number of peanut-allergy sufferers on the rise?

Liver cancer is one of the most difficult-to-treat cancers, with few useful surgical or therapeutic options

Study sheds light on the “proprioception” of yeast—the manner in which an organism understands its spatial orientation

Researchers propose a new way to improve the beam quality in laser wakefield accelerators, which are small and inexpensive enough to bring high energy physics experiments to a wide variety of universities and labs

“We need new strategies to block development of resistance and to prolong the life of antibiotics, and we believe our work has revealed a promising direction.”

New carbon capture membrane boasts CO2 highways

A metal-foam compound developed by Professor Rob Shepherd's engineering group displays shape memory and the ability to self-heal through reheating

"We were driven by curiosity about the evolution of the nuclear pore complex"

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a previously unknown weakness; an "Achilles heel", of bacteria. Their discovery may be the first step in developing an entirely novel form of antibiotics

Magma re-creation, along with other research, helps researchers to understand eruptions and possibly ways to better predict them

Life in the city changes cognition, behavior, and physiology of birds to their advantage