Gold nanoparticles that cluster in response to T cell enzymes can predict cancer immunotherapy success days before tumors ...

Sensors are widely utilised in everyday life, with uses ranging from monitoring gas concentrations to recognizing faces. Sensors are also widely used throughout various industrial processes to detect ...

A team of scientists has developed a new kind of biosensor that can be injected straight into the bloodstream, and will then travel to your brain, where they will — according to the scientists behind ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified formaldehyde as “carcinogenic to humans (Group 1),” linking it to nasopharyngeal cancer and leukemia. While evidence for sinonasal ...

For crops, climate change is literally a growing problem. But first, researchers have to better understand how existing plants manage their water flow. Stroock and his colleagues have developed a ...

Animal testing is an area that elicits strong feelings on both sides of the argument for and against the practice. Supporters like the British Royal Society argue that virtually every medical ...

It is difficult to monitor diseases like cancer without repeated biopsies and imaging scans. A solution could be offered by the field of nanotechnology, in the form of tiny sensors made up of carbon ...

Much as we'd love to discover grey aliens with warp drive technology, any extraterrestrial life we're lucky enough to find will likely be pretty basic. But the chemical detection methods used by space ...