A closet-sized isolation cell in the Lake County jail has become a place of last resort as patients in mental health crisis wait for beds at the state-run mental hospital.

A new study led by a pair of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst turns long-held conventional wisdom about a certain type of polymer on its head, greatly expanding understanding of ...

Researchers have figured out how to make wood much stronger by injecting it with iron minerals found in soil. This discovery, while still experimental, might eventually transform how we build ...

Researchers across US institutions set out to enhance the properties of wood to create a "high-performance, eco-friendly ...

Researchers wanted to determine if adding extremely hard minerals at the nanoscale could make the walls of wood cells ...

With more than 181.5 billion tons of wood produced globally each year, a new method could revolutionize how we build ...

The interaction between growth and the active migration of cells plays a crucial role in the spatial mixing of growing cell ...

Researchers have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage -- phage for short -- that has allowed them to see for the first time the structural makeup of the part of the phage that ...

The cell uses a process called fill-in synthesis to complete the shorter strand. But if that doesn't happen properly, repair enzymes could mistake the structure for a break that needs to be fixed, ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have captured continuous, 24-hour images of cellulose synthesis, the process by which plant cell walls are built, using ...