ORANGE, Calif. - Chapman University has earned the largest federal research grant in the university's history. The National Institutes of...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Loading nanofiber sutures with vitamin D induces the production of an infection-fighting peptide, new research shows. The...

Signal Detection Theory is a popular and well-established idea that has influenced behavioral science for around 50 years. Essentially, the...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 17, 2017 - Many women do not follow the guidelines to prevent pregnancy for an 18-month period following...

Credit: Georgia Tech / Eva Dyer If brain imaging could be compared to Google Earth, neuroscientists would already have a...

A Northwestern University research team has discovered how scalding heat and tissue injury activate an ancient "pain" receptor in simple...

Mars, Inc., UC Davis and partners have launched a crowdsourcing initiative to solve the problem of aflatoxin contamination of crops....

Credit: University of Houston An obesity intervention for Hispanic middle school students led by researchers at the University of Houston...

Credit: Matthew Hurteau With warm, dry summers comes a deadly caveat for the western United States: wildfires. Scientists say the...

The costs of chocolate production around the world Every year, more than five million family farms in countries such as...

Credit: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center JOHNSTON, Iowa, and ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Oct. 17, 2017 - DuPont Pioneer and the...

Credit: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL - Oct. 17, 2017 - In findings that open the door to a...

Researchers have shown that genetic diversity plays a key role in enabling drug resistance to evolve. Scientists at the Wellcome...

Up to sixteen weeks of intermittent fasting without otherwise having to count calories helps fight obesity and other metabolic disorders....

Credit: Graphic: team Gallant Most human tumours have one thing in common: They harbour drastically increased amounts of the so-called...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University researchers have developed a computational model to quantify the mechanism by which CRISPR-Cas9 proteins...

A team of researchers at VIB and KU Leuven used stem cell technology to generate motor neurons from ALS patients...

Credit: University of Kentucky LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 17, 2017) -- Picture this: you're battling heart failure and meeting with your...

Credit: Graphic: Susan Walter, UFZ In the meantime, minute plastic particles can be found in the water in virtually every...

Credit: Jing Yuan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology WASHINGTON -- An estimated 5.5 million Americans live with Alzheimer's disease,...