Cambodia's Ministry of Health recently confirmed the country's twelfth human case of H5N1 avian influenza so far this year.

A new report says the withdrawal of U.S. funding has caused a “systemic shock” to the global effort against AIDS and HIV.

It’s long been known that when you’re overweight, you’re more apt to develop conditions like high blood pressure or diabetes that can lead to heart disease. Now Johns Hopkins researchers have shown ...

Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether ...

Quantum sensors have become important tools in low-energy particle physics. Michael Doser explores opportunities to exploit ...

I’ve always wondered — can we see an electron? I dug into the science behind this tiny particle, and it turns out the answer ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how ...

This channel electron multiplier amplifies the faint signals generated in some types of mass spectrometry and other precision analytical techniques. Electrons are focused into the curved device, where ...

Fraunhofer FEP has developed this process for a new type of component for lithium-ion batteries called metal-on-polymer ...

A prototype gas chromatograph (GC) electron monochromator (EM) reflectron time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer has been constructed and demonstrated to simultaneously record four-dimensional ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...

The smaller the particles, the more worrying they are. Particulate matter measuring 10 micrometers or less in diameter — a fraction of the width of a human hair — is referred to as PM10, and it is ...