For nearly a century, the O'Shaughnessy seawall has held back the sand and seas of San Francisco's Ocean Beach. At...

Credit: Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - For the first time, Cornell University researchers are using imaging capabilities at the Cornell...

Credit: SUGIMOTO Takaomi A new species of non-photosynthesizing parasitic plant has been discovered on the subtropical island of Ishigaki in...

Credit: Maffetone, Rivera-Dominguez and Laursen. Does your waist measure more than half your height? If so, you may be part...

Credit: © Humberto Yamaguti SAN FRANCISCO (July 24, 2017) -- A team of researchers -- including Dr. Lauren Esposito, Curator...

Credit: Kobe University Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common virus found worldwide. When CMV infects fetuses, it can cause serious...

Credit: (© Evgeny V. Yan/FSU Jena) (Jena, Germany) He's Australian, around half a centimetre long, fairly nondescript, 300 million years...

Credit: Tomsk Polytechnic University Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University and the University of Chemistry and Technology (Prague, Czech Republic) have...

The New Phytologist Trust, in partnership with John Wiley & Sons, is announcing the launch of a new crossdisciplinary Open...

Credit: Jonathan Lawson The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine has selected Babraham Institute group leader, Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri, to receive...

Today investigators at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Children's Oncology Group (COG) announced the opening of enrollment for...

Credit: © Chris Smart, NYSAES, Geneva NY A missing link in the complex molecular pathway by which plants resist pathogens...

Climate change campaigns that focus on correcting public beliefs about scientific consensus are likely to backfire and undermine policy efforts,...

PHILADELPHIA - Offering $100 to patients eligible for a preventive colonoscopy screening more than doubled the rate of screening when...

Bottom Line: In preclinical studies, tumors that consitutively expressed the protein indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO1) responded to the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor...

(Earlham Institute) A four-year investment from RCUK's Global Challenges Research Fund is set to stimulate the bioeconomy by increasing knowledge...

A high-fat diet not only creates health problems for expectant mothers, but new research in an animal model suggests it...

At a glance: New study explains previously mysterious characteristics of ribosomes, the protein production factories of the cell. Researchers mathematically...

For mice and men, a strength in one area of Darwinian fitness may mean a deficiency in another. A look...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Pathogenic fungi, the kind that cause wilt diseases in more than 100 plants species,...