Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

Although present in very small amounts, selenium (Se)-based compounds play important roles in protecting the body from oxidative stress, regulating thyroid hormones, strengthening the immune system, ...

RSelenium may be one of the least known of R’s most helpful packages. Why is it useful? Just a few lines of code will drive a Web browser for tasks that might otherwise need tedious manual pointing ...

Scientists are using an ingredient found in common shampoos to investigate how the oxygen content of the oceans has changed over geologically recent time. Scientists at the University of Leicester are ...

To understand the three-dimensional shape of a protein, scientists often rely on information from similar molecules. But sometimes, the protein is so unique that it’s not possible to find a close ...