Month: August 2017

When the Colorado-based oil company Venoco, Inc. -- founded in Carpinteria, California, more than two decades ago -- declared bankruptcy ...

Credit: Amy Hong Male fruit flies with strong family ties are less likely to become abusive during mating than others, ...

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the regulation of immune cells that play a ...

Credit: J. Adam Fenster and Prof. A. N. Vamivakas, University of Rochester Research underway at RIT advances a new kind ...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Microbiome researchers Rob Knight, PhD, University of California San Diego, Jeffrey Gordon, MD, Washington University ...

Credit: University of Utah Health Inherited genetic mutations can rob up to 7 percent of the population of their smile. ...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--As part of the National Science Foundation's funding for new multidisciplinary approaches to neuroscience, Salk Professor ...

Credit: Brian Dougherty Manure is a reality in raising farm animals. Manure can be a useful fertilizer, returning valued nitrogen, ...

Credit: Melanie Burford. Researchers at the University of Bergen have transformed skin puncture cells from diabetes patients into insulin producing ...

Credit: Siobhán Cooke, Johns Hopkins Medicine Radiocarbon dating of a fossilized leg bone from a Jamaican monkey called Xenothrix mcgregori ...

Credit: Professor Martin Caffrey, Trinity College Dublin. Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have gained key structural insights into the machinery ...

Age-related frailty may be a treatable and preventable health problem, just like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, highlights a review ...

Credit: Steven Mattocks Fish that migrate between freshwater and sea ecosystems play a multitude of ecological roles. In the centuries ...

(American Chemical Society) Unlike locusts and many other flying insects, cicadas don't soar through the air with the greatest of ...

WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, 5:00-6:30 pm WHERE: Orange County Convention Center, South Building, Hall B 9800-9899 International Drive, Orlando, ...

Because gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), commonly known as a "date rape drug" is rapidly absorbed and metabolized by the body, ...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A team of researchers is exploring the possibility that next-generation probiotics - live bacteria that ...

As antibiotic resistance rises and fears over superbugs grow, scientists are looking for new treatment options. One area of focus ...

Credit: MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Aug. 9, 2017) -- More than 31,000 new cases of endometrial cancer are expected to ...

Lead in drinking water is a decades-old problem and still poses serious public health risks today. In response, utilities are ...